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Main Spar Spacer Blocks

April 26, 2020 by admin Leave a Comment

Now that the left wing spar web and beams are primed, I’m going to start working on the spar spacer blocks. These are spacers between the spar cap beams which add rigidity to the spar in the area of the spar web doubler. The spar web doubler on the forward side of the spar in […]

Left Main Spar Trimming and Priming

April 19, 2020 by admin Leave a Comment

Back to working on the left main wing spar. The spar layout was previously completed during the last work session. Now it’s time to prime and do some trimming. Priming The weather this morning was nice and calm which made it ideal for shooting some primer. To get the day started, I began with prepping, […]

Horizontal Stabilizer Stored

April 4, 2020 by admin Leave a Comment

Now that I have the horizontal stabilizer as far as I can go for now. I’m now ready to get the Canadian Pre-Cover Inspection completed on all the tail components, however with this COVID-19 stuff happening, this will be put on the back burner for now. So until then, I’ve got it hung up and […]

HS-704 nose rib riveting – Revisited

March 30, 2020 by admin Leave a Comment

Continuing the saga from yesterday, today I cannot proceed with any more horizontal stabilizer riveting until I revisit and finish riveting in the HS-704 nose ribs. Again! So I got the nose ribs clecoed in place (on the correct side this time!) and then proceeded with riveting them in. Below is the rivet gun setup […]

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