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Left wing – rear spar drilling

July 1, 2022 by admin Leave a Comment

Good day, just a quick update today to share that I’m drilling the rear spar of the left wing to the ribs. Pretty much just upsizing the holes from the #40 pilot holes to the #30 final size. That’s all for today folks! Please comment. I love to hear from my readers.  Thanks again for coming […]

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 […]

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…where to start?

January 12, 2021 by admin Leave a Comment

I’m excited to get started on the F-404 bulkhead, but where to begin? For me to build the F-404 bulkhead for my F1 project, I’m starting out with the parts from my Van’s RV-4 wing kit. The bulkhead parts are all match-drilled at Van’s and pilot drilled from in their jigs. Basically, the end goal […]

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