Saturday, May 1, 2010

Apr 29 -- Drill Spar and HS-908

Despite the many posts about my attempts at manufacturing HS-908 brackets, they still were not right. Latest issue was that they were not quite aligned with each other.

So I manufactured yet one more, then drilled it by clamping it back-to-back with the one intended for the opposite side and match-drilling a hole in the new bracket.

Next, I clecoed the new bracket to the spar and clamped angle aluminum to both of them in order to make alignment perfect. Figured this part out with the help of Google. Wow, this airplane stuff is so much easier than back in the seventies when I last tried to build a plane.

Time: 1.5 hours

1 comment:

  1. “Wow, this airplane stuff is so much easier than back in the seventies when I last tried to build a plane.” - I do believe so. And I think my dad would say the same. With the tools we have today, it is certainly easier to build and fix things – including aircraft and aviation-related stuff. I'm sure the next generation will be luckier because by then, they’ll probably have state-of-the-art tools.

    Best,
    Jeanette@ZoAir.com

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