Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Bending the longerons

Before I start the first thing to know is that spell checker changes "longerons" to "longhorns" so if any of my posts have "longhorns" in them just assume that I meant "longerons"

So we started bending the longerons and it is possibly the most frustrating part of the building experience (so far). The longerons are long aluminium "L"'s that go from the firewall all the way to the tail on either side of the fuselage. They need to be bent to conform to a curve. Aluminium "L" doesn't like bending in a curve, it likes to bend in 2 dimensions. So it's very time consuming but we're making progress. Don't expect many pictures because it's really not all that photogenic. :-)




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