Month: July 2018

I deburred the edges of the spars and skin today. Deburring spars is pretty easy with the bench grinder. But

I completed the dimpling step today by finishing dimpling all the ribs’s flanges. I went on to complete a task

First I finished deburring the holes on the skins. Then I started dimpling the holes on those skins. The horizontal

First day of the “tedious” process of preparing for priming and final assembly. I deburred holes for most of the

I revisited the first section of the horizontal stabilizer today and riveted the elevator hinge bearing and brackets together, and

With the skins all drilled it’s getting close to deburring and dimpling time, so finally I have to remove the

Nothing special, just match drilling the skin onto the skeleton today.

Before drilling the skin onto the skeleton, because of the spar relief hole cracking service bulletin I need to remove

Today I continue working on the right horizontal stabilizer. It’s essentially another day of repeating what I have done on

Today I disassembled the left half of the horizontal stabilizer and started on the right half. I put the skeleton