Brief Description: Cleco skin to Vertical Stabilizer
Cleco'd skin to Vertical Stabilizer. Needed to modify the VS rib nose of VS1005, VS1013 & VS1006. According to Van's:
Re: Builder 41681 Question Ken Scott (kens@vansaircraft.com) Add to contacts 10:36 AM To: Michael Martinez kens@vansaircraft.com You can expect to do a small amount of trimming, fluting etc to make sheet metal parts fit in tight quarters like this. Nothing wrong with that...such tiny alterations make no measureable difference to the airplane.
Based on advice found online, I did a combination of grinding down the nose rib with the ScotchBrite wheel and fluting the web. After doing this the nose fit into the skin without denting the skin.
