I’d been putting this off long enough, time to cut the hole for the fuel sender. I had already marked the rough position of the lightening hole in the rib, so then it was just marking the centre location for the sender unit. I had done a lot of research on how to cut...
And now for something completely different: the fuel tank. And this really is something totally new, I have no idea how these things work (other than fill with fuel, fly plane until empty). The fuel tank is held in place inside the wing by sticking cork strips to the edges so that it is...
One of those days where you feel good – riveting!! First though, I drilled some holes in the rear channel for the pitot tubing and ran it from the tubes out through the trailing edge This allowed me to close up the top skin on the outboard side. I had to finish deburring the...
The strut on the bottom of the wing gets a doubler for strength (I presume) and this is made from a pre-fabricated strut angle and a gusset. The first task was to position the strut angle and back drill into it from inside the skin. I did a lot of this from underneath the...
Started out with 90 minutes of deburring all the holes associated with the top skins, nose skins, trailing edge, ribs, channels, and spar. Not much more to say about that. Before riveting the skins on we have to put a few things inside. First up was the tie down ring that was drilled quite...
Nose skins, the bane of this plane building lark and we struggled a bit this time too. Using great care not to bend the skin, or to snag it on the slat supports, we pushed it around under the top skin and taped it shut. Then we got out the ratchet straps from earlier...