Good day! Today I’m taking a break from sealant work. I will start drilling the nutplates which attach the fuel tank to the wing spar. I don’t know how many there are but it’s something like 100 per side. As all of these holes are already pre-drilled from when I match drilled the fuel tank […]
Left wing – rear spar drilling
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)
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)
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 […]