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Martin's Aircraft Factory RV-8
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Date: 1-18-2016
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Number of Hours: 5.00
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Manual Reference: DWG 69 & 71
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Brief Description: Fuselage - Mid Fuse skin LH & Baggage rib
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On this Monday, I had decided not to go to the shop and focus my afternoon on job hunting. It turned out my Dad wanted me to be at the garage to help a customer who wanted to access his car currently in storage. Instead of wasting my time waiting for nothing, I used this time to work on the airplane. I did:
- Continuing on the previous day, I shaped the LH F823-1 Mid Fuse Skin, making the conical bend in the bottom aft corner. As with the right side, it went ok, and needed two bends, plus a little hamering to make it confirm with F807 bulkhead.
- I fitted the skin on the mid fuse with cleco, and installed all the intercoastals on it.
- At that stage, I had pretty much completed what I could do for now on the mid fuse, and started to look in instructions what would be the next section.
- I started going through instruction for Aft Fuselage Assembly (pages 8-23 & 8-24).
- I decided to install the bagage rib assembly on the mid fuse, using cleco on bulkhead F807. I continued my little "mockup" assemble to understand how the aft bagages panels are put together in the fuselage. Pretty happy I did that. then went for dinner
- After dinner, I disassemble my aft fuse baggage area mockup assembly
- With the bagage rib parts still clecoed together, I drill all the hole full size, then disassemble and deburred.
- Since I want to be able to remove the baggage bay floors for inspection, I added nut plate holes on the baggage rib angle F818B-1 RH and LH, and on the F-888 Mid Longeron RH and LH
I worked from 14h45 until 18h00, then from 20h45 until 22h30
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Mid Fuse mock up with baggage bay
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Starting to look like an aircraft cabin
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LH skin F823 aft bottom corner roll
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