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...
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...