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)
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 […]
Right Spar Tie Down Bracket
Now that the right wing spar parts are all primed, there is just a bit more pre-assembly to do before I get into riveting the spar together. One main item is finishing up the tie down bracket. On the F1 (and Harmon Rocket II for that matter) the tie down bracket is installed a bit […]