Friday, September 26, 2014

Official Start Day #1 - 7 hours



Found the MD-RA reply to letter of intent in my spam folder of my e-mail! So I guess I'm starting 10 days later than I could have...Sheesh!
Started for on the horizontal stabilizer - rear spar. Worked on HS609PP reinforcement bars. Cut the radius, broke the edges and ensured a good fit to the rear spar. Cleco'd and match drilled #30 the bars to rear spar. Elevator brackets were cleco'd and drilled. I enlarged the holes for the two ribs to #21. Everything went very well. As I was waiting for the primer on the flange bearing to dry, I started to work on the front spar. In trimming the flanges, and trying to enlarge the #30 hole with a uni-bit I totally destroyed the front spar....Crummy! I guess I will have to order new front spars and try again. When the primer was dry I went back to the flange bearing and riveted the brackets to the bearing. I cleaco'd the assembly to the reinforcement bars and match drilled the holes to #12.









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