Yesterday Tad and I got 7hours of work done on the tail kit. I had mostly done a lot of
deburring beforehand so we only spent a couple of hours match drilling a few areas, like the forward attachment brackets (908's) and cleaning up one last rear spar. I had to leave some of it for Tad to work on after all... he's half owner in this too!!
After all the Ribs, Spars,
Doublers were match drilled and
deburred Tad went to the shop to cut out the Jig Cradles for the Horizontal Stabilizer. He came back with them perfectly cut out and ready to be fastened to the workbench. We made sure everything was level and then dropped the first skin into the Jig. We managed to get all the nose ribs
clekoed in and a few of the ribs. still have to
cleko the skin to the spar and drop in a few more ribs. Then we'll match drill this and then
debur and dimple / countersink where needed.
We are happy with the progress so far. Getting the nose ribs on the inward side was a little tricky but a small flute allowed it to drop in quite nicely. No issues so far and everything is lining-up really well.
Next build time will be tomorrow (Tuesday night) ....
