More Prep Work

Today we spent our time completing the dimpling, sanding, cleaning and priming of the rest of the parts for the centre fuselage. There are a large number of parts in this section so it took a remarkably large amount of time to get all the parts done. Next we'll start assembling the centre fuselage -- a task that is expected to take a few weeks.

Took some time to work on Scott's back yard. August 13, 2011

August 20, 2011

August 27, 2011

September 19, 2011

A big step forward and now a seemingly step backwards

Tonight we spent a few more hours working on the centre fuselage. Specifically we worked on the spot in the fuselage where the wings attach. We bolted the spacer blocks between the two sides of the wing attach bulkhead (F-904 for those who are following the part numbers) and low and behold everything lined up perfectly with the bottom skin. We then clecoed everything together, match-drilled all the remaining parts and then set about disassembling the entire assembly.

 

The spacers bolted in place

 

After everything  has been disassembled for deburring, and dimpling.