Fuselage – Baggage floor
Started the Section 21. It looks like this is the largest section in the fuselage construction with a lot of small components. Prepared the baggage floor panes and dimpled them.
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Fuselage – Center Section – Riveting
Completed deburring of F-1204D Center Section Aft Bulkhead and riveted it to the F-1204 Center Section Assembly along with the smaller bits and pieces. The pneumatic squeezer I purchased recently on ebay turned out to be useless on rivets longer than 470AD4-7 So …
Fuselage – Center Section – More Drilling
Continued with the match drilling the thick aluminium center section. God bless air-drills! They make this job much easier and faster. I cant imagine how some people do it with just battery operated drills. Anyway, drilling, countersinking and dimpling is …
Fuselage – Center Section – Drilling
Drilled holes in the Center Section using F-1204D Center Section Aft Bulkhead as a guide. Drilled and clecoed around half of them, then removed the assembly from the bottom skin. Will continue drilling on the bench in more comfortable position.
Fuselage – Center Section
Finally started working on the fuselage. Deburred the assemblies Installed platenuts and retainers. While installing retainer on the assembly(Step 3 Page 20-02) found that the hole are dimpled slightly and it wouldn’t let the nut and the washer sit properly. …
Fuselage kit has arrived
I have ordered it in early June. It took over 4 months to get it put together and delivered to my doorsteps. I need to be more proactive next time and order the wings and finishing kit when I roughly …
Empennage – Fitting antiservo tabs – First screw-up
Weird stuff. Right AST panel appears to be screwed. Literally. Trailing edges of the left and rights ASTs do not line-up in the middle, while outer trailing edges line-up with the stabilator trailing edge perfectly. It looks like the right AST …
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Empennage fairings
Had a chance to work on rudder tip fairing and vertical stab tip fairing. Dremel tool made the process 100 times easier compare to the way suggested in the documentation (sandpaper on a wooden block) It look like the artlines …
Empennage storage crate
Building this plane will certainly take a while. So I need to store a protect what I have build so far. I decided to build a large crate on wheels where I’m going to store all the tail section components …
Forward fuselage has been ordered
Placed an order for the forward fuselage kit. Decided to build the wings later in the process to save on storage space in my garage. I’ll order the wings with the finishing kit. Vans people said the fuselage kit will be …