It’s time to start building up the left wing skeleton and I started by pilot-drilling the rib attach angles. These angles need to be drilled with 5 holes. The plans talk of building a drill template that can be used on each angle to ensure they are the same. I opted to just measure for […]
Wing rib prep
Now that the F-404 bulkhead is finished it is time for me to start with my wing rib prep to continue building up the wings. As seen in the image below, I began by breaking the edges of the lightening holes. I used an air powered die grinder with a 3M wheel. This makes short […]
F-404 Bulkhead assembly continues (pt. 3)
As I get close to finishing off the F-404 bulkhead, the only remaining part was to finish the interior side with the F-404G Bulkhead Caps. These are straightforward and as I forgot to order these with my RV-4 wing kit, I ended up fabricating them myself but as you will see, that’s no big deal. […]
F-404 Bulkhead assembly continues (pt. 2)
As I slowly keep working to get the work on the F-404 bulkhead wrapped up, today I worked on the F-404F lower skin panel. This is another part of the F1 bulkhead that needed to fabricated due to extra width of the modified part. In the picture below, you can see that I used the […]