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Date:  11-6-2006
Number of Hours:  2.30
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Brief Description:  Finished up center section

Tonight, Sam Beale came over and helped me engineer a solution to the misplaced nutplate on the aft center section flange. Vans told us that we had to locate the nutplate exactly as per the plans or the seat rib would not fit later. So, we sucked it up and drilled the new nutplates, even though they were very close to the old nutplate holes. To keep the flange from cracking later (because of insufficient edge distance from hole to hole) we filed everything very smooth and then riveted a doubler plate behind the flange. It does not look the greatest, but it is now structurally sound. Then, we primed the bits to be bolted to the center section and bolted everything together. Looks great.
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Sam tourquing the wing bolts to the center section

Sam tourquing the wing bolts to the center section

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The crotch strap anchor and the control angle, bolted to the center section

The crotch strap anchor and the control angle, bolted to the center section

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The fixed nutplate on the center section flange

The fixed nutplate on the center section flange

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