Month: April 2016

Started working on rudder pedals and brakes system. Completed one and a half pages and realised that I dont have a good 1/4 inch drill bit. Leaving it till next time. Spent 2 hours

Completed assembly and riveting of the seatbacks. Attached the to the floor of the cockpit. Looks cool! Spent 1 hour

Started building seat backs. Pretty straight forward process. Almost done Spent 3 hours

Spent 4 hours preparing fuse skins – lots of deburring. I decided not to put them on for now. It will make some other assembly easier.    

I have decided to subject the fuselage longerons to some more hammering in order to get them to conform with fuselage shape without much force applied. Now they fit nicely. Clecoed both skins and doublers to do match drilling. Not …

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Completed page 23-04. All parts were prepared earlier At step 8 (Insert the F-1234-L and -R Canopy Decks and F-1255-L and -R Longerons), the longerons are slightly misaligned with rollbar attach plate. Left longeron goes slightly inwards of the fuselage and …

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