Carrying on with building up the left wing skeleton, today I am going to start working on placement of the outboard 3 ribs and their associated nose ribs. Starting with the tip rib, I clamped some scrap strips of aluminum to the tip rib and nose rib to help hold them in place, and to […]
Left wing skeleton build up
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. […]