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Left wing nose rib installation (pt.1)

September 24, 2021 by admin Leave a Comment

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

May 28, 2021 by admin 1 Comment

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 […]

F-404 Bulkhead assembly continues (pt. 2)

May 7, 2021 by admin Leave a Comment

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

March 19, 2021 by admin Leave a Comment

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 […]

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