{"id":1037,"date":"2010-02-27T17:14:49","date_gmt":"2010-02-27T17:14:49","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-12-04T06:40:18","modified_gmt":"2017-12-04T06:40:18","slug":"top-aft-skins-and-baggage-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/2010\/02\/27\/top-aft-skins-and-baggage-area\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Aft Skins and Baggage Area"},"content":{"rendered":"

We were busy most of the day at a cub scout event with my son, but I managed to put a couple of hours in this evening. \u00a0I got started by fluting all of the bulkheads and making sure their flanges would lie flush with the skins. \u00a0I then temporarily attached the rear top skin to mark a few holes that are not predrilled.<\/p>\n

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The bottom three holes on F-709 on each side are not drilled. \u00a0I marked their position through the holes on the skin so that I can determine where to flute. \u00a0You can see that this area will need some significant fluting.<\/p>\n

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I then trimmed and fit the stiffeners and then put on the forward skin. \u00a0One final rib is inserted on the top skin between F-706 and F-707 as well as a gusset plate (where the numbers 479 are visible).<\/p>\n

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Finally, I match drilled the skins to the bulkheads and stiffeners.<\/p>\n

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Now that the skins were in place, I needed to drill the bulkhead gussets to the longerons. \u00a0Instead of peeling back the skins, I just climbed back into the tailcone and drilled the gussets in place. \u00a0For the F-706 bulkhead, I clamped a straightedge across the opening to ensure the gussets hold the two sides of the bulkhead perfectly in line with each other.<\/p>\n

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Finally, I clecoed the baggage floor back in place.<\/p>\n

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…and then clecoed and clamped the lower back wall of the baggage compartment in place.<\/p>\n

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We were busy most of the day at a cub scout event with my son, but I managed to put a couple of hours in this evening. \u00a0I got started by fluting all of the bulkheads and making sure their flanges would lie flush with the skins. \u00a0I then temporarily attached the rear top skin … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fuselage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1037"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2844,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037\/revisions\/2844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}