Brief Description: Drilling ribs and putting skin on.
Nothing too technical today. I decided to try leaving the HS-404 and HS-405 ribs out of the construction for a while. I had a guy on a forum show me how he got those lined up fairly well and drill the troublesome holes that people seem to line up wrong. His idea of putting it in then drilling it to get a perfect hole alignment looked good. I might try that. So, I clekoed and drilled the other ribs for now. Put in the HS-706, 707 and 708 ribs in place between the spars with the clekos and then drilled them where needed with the #30 bit. I then wrapped the HS-601PP skin around the left side stabilizer ribs and spar and clekoed it in place. I learned that even if it is handy to cleko a rib from the inside, later it will have to come out again - easily - which it didn't. So I had to take the clekos out grab it and put it on the outside with all the others. The photos show clekos every 3rd hole or so, but I'll be putting more in just to keep things tight and aligned before doing any drilling or anything requireing tight alinment. This is just the preliminary "skinning" so far. I just got kind of excited to see something look like an airplane, so I just put a few in and took photos!
Ribs and tip attached for #30 drilling.
Wow! It's starting to look like something familiar!
Skin attached and ready for the next step - hole enlarging.
