Let
me see… where were we… oh yeah! Building an
airplane!!! I almost forgot!!! Angela's been out of town
for what seems like the entire month of September, and I'm getting
pretty busy at work. Last weekend we were both out of town, and
this weekend I really need to go in to make up... well... pretty much
everything! So, I was on my way to heading out the door for work
when Angela asked me if I'd help her out in the shop for a second...
anybody see where this is going... well, next thing I know its
2:00am. Oh well, I guess I can go to work tomorrow. Just
can't make the mistake of opening the garage door tomorrow.
Anyway... it was good to be back! We got a few things done
today...
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(10-10 step 4): First
thing was to drop the longerons in place. You can see the slots I
cut in them for the horizontal stabilizer attachment bars. The
bulkheads in the forward part of the tailcone have notches cut in
them. I had to open these up a little bit with a file in order
for the longerons to fit properly.
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(10-10 steps 5 & 6):
Once the longerons were in place Angela dropped the F-1010B
spacer in place to fill the gap between the longerons on top of the
F-1010A horizontal stabilizer attachment angle. After that she
clecoed the aft deck and the F-1011B stop/doubler in place.
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(10-11 steps 1 & 2): After
the aft deck was clecoed in place we used a bunch of clamps to lock the
longerons, aft deck and side skins together. The longerons are
still just sitting in place since there are no pre-punched holes in
them, but that's about to change. Here Angela is match drilling
the skin holes into the longerons using the upper edge of the skins to
align the longerons.
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(10-5 step 1): Now
that we have our replacement bulkhead from Van's it was time to get on
it, so I began the deburring process. I'm a little more anal
about it so it takes me a bit longer than Angela. Not too worry
though… I've been away from this for so long I really don't mind
it today! As I finished each section of the bulkhead I clecoed it
in place in the tailcone. Once they were all in I final drilled
all the common holes between the sections.
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(10-9 steps 1 & 2; 10-10 steps 1 & 2): Once
the F-1006 bulkhead was in place I then clecoed the baggage bulkhead
channel in place (the vertical piece in the pic). After that I
clecoed the bellcrank angles on top of the bellcrank ribs. Then
it was time to match drill all these peices together.
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(10-11 steps 3 & 4): I
had no idea what time it was, but I knew it was late… oh well, I
still felt good and decided to press on. The last thing I did for
the night was final drill all the remaining holes in the side skins to
the bulkheads and frames and also the web holes in the aft-most
bulkhead in the tailcone. I was tempted to final drill the holes
on the bottom skin but when I realized it was 2:00am, I decided I
should call it here... that's it, a good day back!
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