Our drill and drill bits arrived and Dad’s idea was a hit! It was slow going to open the holes to the right size but a few back and forth with the hand drill eventually got the holes opened and, after some deburring and priming, the flaperon arms were riveted to the rear ribs....
With the bottom skin riveted on, we turned the whole assembly over so we could work inside and on top. The video has you drill out the flaperon arms before the ribs are riveted to the spar but I decided to follow the photo guides and leave it until now. This was a mistake....
Happy Christmas!!! My Christmas present to myself was the installation of the bottom skin, it is starting to look like a wing! To get to that point we had to finish opening all the remaining holes to their final A4 size Then came the painful task of disassembling everything, deburring all the holes and...
Started out today by drilling through the pilot holes in the top skin into the spar. This allowed us to cleco the nose skins in place on the spar. and then drill all the holes in the ribs and nose skins to A4 rivet size. After this we positioned the two trailing edges onto...
Another day, and a fresh pair of eyes on the aligning skin problem. To cut a long story short, I found that the rear rib at station 2 was twisted against the rear channel making the hole spacing at that end incorrect. So, a little more unriveting and with some effort we got the...
If we revisit the finished skeleton and take a look at the rear angle on the rear channel which you can see on top of the channel to the right of the strut support, it didn’t seem right to me that a skin would sit on that properly; it wouldn’t lay flat on the...