Deburred all the holes and edges on the bottom fuselage skin. Did the holes deburring without removing the blue plastic. Worked ok. Going to keep the plastic as long as possible. Dimpled the nutplate attach points and nutplates. Spend 1 …
Riveted the corner skins to the bottom of the fuselage. Page 21-15 is completed Started preparing the bottom skin Spend 3 hours
Prepared bottom fuse stiffeners and doublers working 15-30 minutes each time over last few days. I’m trying to prepare as many components as possible for the bottom skin attachment. The idea is to rollover the fuse on sawhorses, do the …
Happy New Year! It was a hot day and I was a bit tired after a night out with the family. Prepared the step ribs Dimpled two of them (inboard ones) on the wrong side despite of double and triple …
Bolted the WD-1210 control column. had to use 2 full thickness washes on each side, super-glued together. Tightened the nuts with 25 lb-in torque Spend 1 hour
Mainly worked on F-1203A Attached doublers and dozens of nutplates Attached the F-1203A to the rest of the fuse, riveted it. Riveted the seat rump floor panels. Attached a lot of nutplates. Everything is straight forward here. Just a lot of small …
Completed work up to page 21-11 It took a while to get F-1203A bulkhead deburred and ready – so many holes, it is crazy! Attached the control column mounts and stub spar recepticals Spend 4 hours. There is about 2 more …
Prepared the Control column mount components along with some other small bits. Riveted the Control column mount bits together. Double flush riveting represented a bit of a challenge. The AN426AD4-6 rivets are a bit too long to form a nice flush shop …
Attached bulkhead caps and the wing spar rollers. Pretty straightforward task. Page 21-09 completed Spend 1 hour
Attached seat floor to the seat ribs and then both sides of the seat floor to the baggage assenbly Completed seet floor assembly Pages 21-08 and 21-07 are completed Spend 8 hours