Almost finished the tail bulkhead. Almost because I ran our of AN470AD4-6 rivets. I’ve done silly thing – I though it would be a good idea to use solid rivets instead of pulled rivets in some parts of the bulkhead. …
Riveted together all 3 fuselage frames and started riveting the tailcone bulkhead. Too many solid rivets. I don’t like them. Spend 4 hours
It was a great day. I had a chance to spend 5 hour in the garage. Prepared lots of bits and components that will end up forming the tail of my plane. Almost everything is deburred and ready to be …
Finished with the skin preparation and prepared the rear fuselage frames
Finally got back to building after a few weeks of being busy with work and family. Deburred 3 more sections of the tailcone skin. 2 panels left … and one more section done on 05/05/15. So, one more panel left It takes …
Page 10-02 Skin preparation started. Lots of blue plastic removing, and deburring and breaking the edges. The biggest challenge is to manage all these large pieces of sheet metal. I need larger garage. The skin preparation is not only boring, …
Rearranged the stuff – put empennage to storage and pulled out all the rear fuselage skins etc. Tailcone skins are long and awkward to manage. So I extended one of the wall shelves to store all these long skin parts. …
Stabilator and vertical fin are complete now. (Minus the couter-balance arm. I’ll do it later. Makes storage easier) I decided to remove the blue film completely and wrap the parts in packaging paper for long term storage. With the way …
Page 09-08 Started riveting stabilator skin. I actually enjoy riveting with blind rivets. My pneumatic rivet puller died on me on last few rivets. I had to pull it apart. It turned out that one of the component inside it …
Left and right skins have been clecoed on to skeleton. Now it looks like some aircraft part. Biggest so far.