Good Day! Today I’m working on cutting out the T-411 fuel tank access panel covers and the T-407 reinforcement rings. In my last post I laid out 14 of the access panel covers and 12 of the rings on some spare sheets of 2024-T3 0.063-inch aluminum I had. I started by cutting the T-407 reinforcement […]

Good day! Today I am going to be working on doing the layout and drilling of the row of rivets that attach the rear tank baffle to the tank skin. This row of rivets is in the space between the spar channel that we drilled in the last build session, and the vertical face of […]

Good day! Today I’m going to get the fuel tanks back on to the wing assembly and I’m going to work on match drilling the screw hole locations for where the rear tank baffle will attach to the forward side of the wing spar. Next I strapped the fuel tank down again to get it […]

As get closer to being able to drill the fuel tank skin, I still need to do a bit more prep work by cutting the access hole into the T-403 end rib. With the end rib access hole cut, I now have access to the entire fuel tank. Next up was to centerpunch and drill […]