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Hours Today: 1.2 Project Total: 215.7



(8-13 step 1):  Angela & I were out of town this weekend... spent time with her family.  I was having a hard time today at work trying not to think about getting back on the plane.  It was made worse by the fact we got in late today so I was at work pretty late.  Once home it was time to get back at it!  First off, sorry, no pictures... nothing really to look at.  The first step of the night was to put in the remaining four inspar ribs.  The most inboard on each side were pop riveted to the front spar due to no access to the front side of the spar.  The other two were the outboard pair so these took solid rivets.
(8-13 step 2):  The next step was to rivet the skin to the front spar flanges.  We knew we wouldn't be finishing this tonight so we picked a select set of them to do before calling it a night.  We basically chose to do the 1/8 rivets on one side (1/8 due to the holes we mis-drilled in the spar flange).  We stuck with our tried and true system... Angela shooting, me bucking, and the results were good.  We're definitely getting more proficient!  Can't wait to do a little more in a day or two!  We'll have to order some more AN426AD4-6 rivets though.  There aren't very many supplied in either the wing kit, nor the emp/tailcone kit, and we pretty much blew our supply tonight!  Currently we don't even have enough to do the other side of the horizontal stabilizer.


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