Yesterday
morning we went to downtown Fort Worth and witnessed the second tallest
building implosion in the world. Very impressive stuff!
After that we came home and I had a nagging headache for the rest of
the day. Annoying because I should've been able to devote a good
portion of time to building. Instead... nothing! Oh well,
we saw some good progress today. Here's the parts list for the
next couple of steps. Looks like we're going to be putting
together the skeleton of the vertical stabilizer.
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And here it is, clamped to the table and ready for final drilling of the common holes.
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After
final drilling it was time to attach the skin in order to final drill
it. As we had heard, clecoing the skin to the VS-1013 Nose Rib
was an absolute PAIN! Even though we deburred the Nose Rib it
still left some significant scratches on the interior of the skin while
trying to muscle it into place. It worries me to think how it'll
be after we get a coat of primer on both of those pieces. Doesn't
sound like fun!
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Here's
a shot of the telltale bump in the skin I've heard so much about.
I think we're definitely going to have to sand that nose rib down a bit!
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Here we can see Angela just having a blast with Clecos!
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We've also heard that this is
one of the first real feelings of satisfaction when building an RV...
having the first resemblance of an airplane part. We'd have to
agree!
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