03/31/14 - Assembly Test Turtle Deck
Dan assembled the turtle deck to check the fit. Looks Great! Check out those rib rivet hole lines. Return To Fuselage
03/29/14 - Turtle Deck Ribs Finshed
Dan finished up the turtle deck ribs. Some of the flutes are hard to get right. They need to be in the right location to avoid the rivets yet deep enough to make the part flat and the flange at the right angle. The smallest rib, F20-04, was tricky. We have the large red fluting pliers …
03/16/14 - Turtle Deck Ribs
3_16_2014Fuselage statusAfter completing cutting and drilling the larger sheet parts for the fuselage over the last few weeks I started working on the turtle deck rib formers. We had purchased the rib forming block kit long ago and the fuselage ribs were the only ones that had not been converted to parts (although to be …
03/15/14 - Turtle Deck Skins Match Drill
Dan had the good idea of match drilling the center seam of the turtle deck skins on the bench. Return To Fuselage
03/09/14 - Glare Shield + Rear Fuselage Bottom Skin
Since we are trying to make the best use of the aluminum sheets we continue to cut out the largest parts first. Here is the glare shield, F07-01. We are not sure if we want the sloped instrument panel or a vertical one so we added material on that end. We can decide later. The …
02/23/14 - Turtle Deck Cut Out + Seat Sling
February 23, 2014 Turtle Deck Cut Out & Seat Sling The turtle deck sections were marked and cut without incident last week. The only issue I had at all was that the power went out do to a massively wet and heavy snow storm on Thursday night. The total snowfall was only 12 or 14 …
02/08/14 - Rear Fuselage Side Panels
2/8/2014 Starting the layout of fuselage parts. The plans has the side panels as the highest numbered sheets. Tim and are expecting that we will be at least one sheet of 0.025″ aluminum short. This is due to (likely) some careless cutting on my part, way back when we were fabricating the control surfaces. At …