Plane Project

Got the left HS ribs ready.  This consisted of deburring the edges and lightening holes and fluting them to straightening them.

Put the 6 degree bend in the HS-710 and HS-714 reinforcing angle.  Did more trimming on the left front spar.

I prep’ed the left HS front spar. This mostly consisted of trimming back a little of the flange, drilling some relief holes and bending it by six degrees. I also tapered the HS-710 and HS-714 reinforcing angles. Sorry, forgot to take pictures.

Cutting the HS-404 nose ribs didn’t turn out so well.  Looking kind of ugly:

Since I didn’t have all my priming stuff, I stopped to match drill the skin to the horizontal stabilizer rear spar.  In his video, George Orndorff mentioned that this may be easier to dimple the spar holes now rather than waiting.  This seemed like a good idea.

After several hours filing and sanding, father dropped in to help assemble the horizontal stabilizer rear spar.