Work is progressing on the vertical stabilizer. I completed the final drilling step along with step 5 for marking the faring screw holes so that they don’t get dimpled or riveted. I’ve watched some videos on YT where the builder used tape to mark the holes. I think I shouldContinue Reading
Continued work on Section 6-3, Skin on skeleton attachment. This took a lot more time than I expected. The skin (VS-1001) has to be cleco’d over the skeleton but getting it aligned is very fiddly and a bit tricky. This is done so that the holes can be final drilledContinue Reading
Countersinking, Assembly of skeleton Most of the drilling and deburring work is complete. Final steps were to machine counter sink the #30 holes below the connect holes on VS-1008. Since this was the first time that I have done any machine countersinking, I did quite a bit of practicing. ThenContinue Reading
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