{"id":1173,"date":"2015-04-26T09:23:37","date_gmt":"2015-04-26T13:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rv10.mirimar.org\/?p=1173"},"modified":"2015-04-26T09:30:28","modified_gmt":"2015-04-26T13:30:28","slug":"tailcone-fitting-part-2a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rv10.mirimar.org\/?p=1173","title":{"rendered":"Tailcone Fitting – Part 2a"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a week on business travel, I returned to finish fitting the skins, stiffeners, longerons, aft deck, and doublers.<\/p>\n

\"IMGP5172\"<\/a>Here drilling the aft top skin to the stiffeners.<\/p>\n

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\"IMGP5171\"<\/a>Fluting the frames is required to get a smooth curve on the skins.<\/p>\n

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\"IMGP5175\"<\/a>\"IMGP5176\"<\/a>Walking the forward top skin to the frames.\u00a0 This time I started at the top and moved downward.<\/p>\n

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\"IMGP5177\"<\/a>Rita says it looks like a porcupine. I think it looks great.<\/p>\n

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\"IMGP5178\"<\/a>Fully enclosed tail section!<\/p>\n

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\"IMGP5180\"<\/a>Next day I drilled and clecoed all the aft deck parts.<\/p>\n

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\"IMGP5181\"<\/a>\"IMGP5184\"<\/a>The horizontal stabilizer attachment points are reinforced with 3-4 extra pieces of fabricated aluminum.\u00a0 This photo from above shows the alignments along the center line.<\/p>\n

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\"IMGP5188\"<\/a>Close-up of the clamped, then final attachment brackets.<\/p>\n

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\"IMGP5185\"<\/a>Here is the aft deck fully drilled and clecoed.<\/p>\n

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After a week on business travel, I returned to finish fitting the skins, stiffeners, longerons, aft deck, and doublers. Here drilling the aft top skin to the stiffeners.         Fluting the frames is required to get a smooth curve on the skins.         Walking the forward top skin to …<\/span> Continue Reading →<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rv-10-build-project","category-section-10-tailcone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rv10.mirimar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rv10.mirimar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rv10.mirimar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rv10.mirimar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rv10.mirimar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1173"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/rv10.mirimar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1178,"href":"https:\/\/rv10.mirimar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173\/revisions\/1178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rv10.mirimar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rv10.mirimar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rv10.mirimar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}