The first business of the day was locating and drilling the upper and lower doublers into the front spar. A tip rib gets attached to each end of the spars and an L-angle gets cut to support it against the front spar. I marked and drilled the location of the rivet holes and attached...
Time to start a brand new kit!! The tail definitely represents a new challenge in the construction, bigger pieces, and some intricate placing of parts. Anyway, the first act of the day was to take the tail parts out of the crate and put the flaperons in their place. When the tail is done...
Phase 2 of the build began this weekend with the arrival of the next two kits: the Horizontal Tail kit, and the Slats and Flaperons kit. Even though I knew how big the parts were I hadn’t really been prepared for the size of the crate; that thing was huge! I can’t begin to...
I've ordered the next two kits: the Horizontal Tail and the Slats/Flaperons. Estimate shipping date is end of the month.