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| 6-21-05: My new worktable! I painted it
blue so aluminum would photograph well on it. |
6-27-05: My new bending brake! This will see lots of
use now that I am starting my fuselage. |
6-29-05: Here are my standard
L angles in progress. On the left are the pre-bent strips; on the right
are the finished L angles. |
7-03-05: Laying out the forming blocks for
the Firewall. |
8-16-05: Working on Center Spar. After
bending the two center spar web pieces, I clamped them together and
drilled the holes for the caps. |
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| 8-16-05: Drilling spar webs and caps 1/4 inch
for spar spacers. |
8-16-05: The Center Spar Spacers I fabbed
last week in place. |
8-16-05: Here you can see the space left for
the wing spars and the AN4-15A bolts sticking up in the background. |
Today I started
drilling holes in my fuselage bottom skin. See next frame.
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I ran into a problem. Click
here to see the H.T Frame saga. |
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| 10-16-05: Made new (wider) HT
Frame. New dimension is 222mm. |
10-16-05: These Z angles are tuff
to make. The mod on my brake limits how far around I can bend. Top bend is
60 degrees on the inside w/ 1/8th inch Rad. |
10-17-05: Here is the Rear Bottom
Skin before drilling for L and Z angles. |
10-17-05: Drilling some holes in
some angle |
10-18-05: Here's where I am at
the end of Fall-Break . . .Back to class, less time for plane :( |
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| 12-29-05 (Christmas Break) : I'm
back in the shop, making some headway. |
Here's why
I'm having a hard time getting anything done. My dog Samantha wants me to
throw the Frisbee. |
12-29-05: Pilot drilled lower
rudder attachments and spacers. |
Next 6 photos updated 6-4-06:
I've been back in the shop a couple of weeks now and made a lot of
progress. |
Here is the outside (bottom) of
the bottom fuselage showing one-half of the lower rudder hinge. |
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| Inside of the bottom fuselage.
It's yellow because it is sprayed with Zinc Oxide primer for corrosion
protection. |
Outside of bottom fuselage mostly
riveted together. |
Fuselage access opening (for
inspection purposes). This will have a hinged door. |
Close-up of nutplates. These are
riveted in to allow the door to be held on by a machine type screw
(aviation grade) |
Me holding the rudder up to the
fuselage. Starting to look like something more than scrap-metal. |
