Fuselage
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Tail Cone Box Wrapup
Riveted turtledeck assembly to fuselage tail cone box per plans revision E. Up drilled holes through side skins and upper splice plates to 3/16″ and installed AN525 hardware. Torqued to spec. Clecoed crosstie closeout plate into place and riveted into place. Clecoed flap motor actuator mounts into place and verified alignment with flap drive tube…
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Turtledeck Assembly – Part 8
Riveted formers #5 through #2 to turtledeck skin starting at upper longerons and moving towards the skin splice channel. Riveted lower #1 formers to back of cross tie box then riveted upper #1 formers to turtledeck skin assembly. Riveted F20-08 splice plate to upper skin splice channel and #1 formers. Wrapped up #1 former section…
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Turtledeck Assembly – Part 7
Prepped and clecoed formers #4 through #2 to tail cone box and turtle deck skin. Prepped and clecoed #1 lower formers to cross tie box, side skins, and turtledeck skin. Prepped and clecoed upper #1 formers to turtledeck skin along with upper splice plate. Once fit and squareness was verified with tail cone assembly, final…
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Turtledeck Assembly – Part 6
Deburred and prepped splice channel assembly and riveted skin splice channel and all attach angles. Deburred, scotchbrited, and acetoned LH and RH turtledeck skins and riveted to splice channel assembly to create -02 turtledeck skin assembly. Clecoed RH side of -02 assembly to aft fuselage tail cone then folded turtledeck skin over to cleco into…
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Fuselage Box Assembly – Part 10
Riveted upper cross tie #2 to vertical channels and upper cross tie box to vertical channels #1. Fit cross tie splice plates to upper splice plates via AN3 bolt holes and riveted plates to cross tie box. F21 complete! Hours Worked: 0.67
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Fuselage Box Assembly – Part 9
Continued final assembly of tail cone. Started by clecoing lower cross ties and aft angle. Riveted aft angle and lower cross tie #5 in order to install aft Shear Web Assembly. Riveted shear web to aft bulkhead and lower aft angle. Un clecoed upper longerons to slip in shear Web Assembly and clecoed into place.…
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Aft Fuselage Part Prep – Part 5
Up drilled crosstie box cover and crosstie box. Also up drilled flap motor mount holes on bottom of crosstie box cover plate. Left flap drive mount holes on back of crosstie at 3/32″ as they will not be used. Hours Worked: 1.05
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Aft Fuselage Side Panel Assembly – Part 5
Began final assembly of side panels by deburring, scotchbriting and cleaning all F25 parts. Started by riveting rudder cable fairlead mount blocks to vertical channels #1 and #5. Riveted lower longerons to aft fuselage side skins along with vertical channels #2-#5. Left vertical channel #1 just clecoed for now. Left top row of rivets on…
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Fuselage Box Assembly – Part 8
Began reassembling aft fuselage assembly by clecoing upper and lower crossties to aft fuselage side panels. Hours Worked: 0.75
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Turtledeck Assembly – Part 5
Finished up drilling #1 former area including upper and lower formers, cross tie box, side skins, and upper splice plates. After all formers were up drilled, removed both turtledeck skins for better access to skin splice channel. Up drilled skin splice channel plates then removed formers and splice channel. Hours Worked: 3.84
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Fuselage Box Assembly – Part 7
Up drilled mount assemblies and aft shear web. Reinstalled aft fuselage floor and up drilled AN525 holes for splice plates in lower formers. Also up drilled top AN525 holes through upper longerons, splice plates, and crosstie box. Inserted F22-07 between lower crosstie #1 and lower splice plates and pilot drilled assembly. Removed aft fuselage floor…
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Turtledeck Assembly – Part 4
Located new #1 turtledeck formers and confirmed much better fit than previous formers. Used #30 holes in turtledeck skin and transferred to formers. Located forward skin splice channel clip and pilot drilled to skin splice channel and former #1 splice plate. Began up drilling turtledeck assembly starting from aft side and working forward. First up…