Drilling Vertical Stabilizer Rear Spar March 30th, 2006
Today I started drilling the vertical stabilizer rear spar. Same process as before; cleco the reinforcement plate and the spar together, and match drill. In addition, there are three brackets that will attach to the rudder. These are also match drilled in place.
The bracket closest to the bottom is missing some of its holes. The idea is that these are match-drilled using the spar and reinforcement bar as guides. I noticed that the bracket wasn’t sitting flush against the reinforcement bar when clecoed in with the pre-drilled holes. So, I used my handy C-clamp to make sure the bracket sat flush when match drilling. Results were pretty good…
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