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 […]
F-404 Bulkhead access holes
Today I worked on an OPTIONAL modification, which was to add access holes through the forward and aft sides of the F-404 bulkhead. Some builders have added holes as large as 2-inches in this area. I chose to go with a 1 3/4 inch hole, for no other reason that I didn’t want to go […]