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Tailcone complete, fuel tank assembly

Hours: 7 Manual Ref: Page 10-23 step 2; Page 10-24 step 3; Page 18-2 steps 1 through 6 Partner: N/A

Taking advantage of the labor day holiday, I got to spend a little time on the plane today. First, the tailcone is now complete (at least the plans say so). There is still the minor detail of attaching all the parts together, but at least all the rivets are in place.

The rest of the day was devoted to the fuel tanks. There really aren’t all that many different parts, but the parts that do make up the tanks are many in number. It took nearly 2 hours just to debur the tank skin stiffeners.