Monday, August 5, 2019

Section 21 - Flaps (nearly finished right flap); Section 13 - Main Spar (finished right main spar); Section 14 - Wing Ribs (right wing ribs well underway)

Good progress was made this past week, even with taking a few days for a nice vacation and birthday celebration with my in-laws. A few details below (this post is short due to time constraints):

Riveted top skin to spar and ribs (right flap):



Clecoed bottom skin to right flap, and checked angle of hinges (<0.1deg between them):


Riveted bottom skin to right flap and nose skin to nose ribs:


Blind-riveted nose skin to nose ribs:


RIGHT SPAR!  Started match-drilling lower j-channels:


Match-drilled upper j-channels:


Flipped and finished match-drilling lower j-channels:


Riveted right fuel tank attach nutplates:


Countersunk all holes in both spar flanges:


Masked both flanges:


Other side:


Primed all countersunk holes, both sides:


Attached bellcrank brackets:


Straightened, fluted, final-drilled, deburred holes, deburred edges, and dimpled all 14 ribs.  This took a LOT of time this week:


Fitted torque tube bracket:


Match-drilled flap hinge attach brackets to the 3rd and 8th ribs (counted from the inboard side):


Torque tube bracket, deburred, reassembled, and ready to be riveted:


Hinge brackets, cleaned and ready for priming:


Inboard rib (non-alclad), cleaned and ready for priming:



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