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07/07/2018 Horizontal Stabilizer – De-vinyled and Finished Drilling Right Skeleton (2 Hours)

July 8, 2018July 8, 2018 admin

With the skins all drilled it’s getting close to deburring and dimpling time, so finally I have to remove the

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07/05/2018 Horizontal Stabilizer – Finished Drilling Right Side Skin (1.5 Hour)

July 6, 2018July 6, 2018 admin

Nothing special, just match drilling the skin onto the skeleton today.

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07/03/2018 Horizontal Stabilizer – Prepared Right Stabilizer for Final Drilling (1 Hour)

July 4, 2018July 5, 2018 admin

Before drilling the skin onto the skeleton, because of the spar relief hole cracking service bulletin I need to remove

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07/01/2018 Horizontal Stabilizer – Right side Inboard Ribs (3 Hours)

July 2, 2018July 2, 2018 admin

Today I continue working on the right horizontal stabilizer. It’s essentially another day of repeating what I have done on

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06/30/2018 Horizontal Stabilizer – Clecoed Right Skeleton and Skin (1.5 Hour)

July 1, 2018July 1, 2018 admin

Today I disassembled the left half of the horizontal stabilizer and started on the right half. I put the skeleton

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06/25/2018 Horizontal Stabilizer – Finished Drilling Left Side (1 Hours)

June 26, 2018June 28, 2018 admin

Today I finished match drilling all the remaining holes on HS-601 skin for the left half of the horizontal stabilizer.

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06/24/2018 Horizontal Stabilizer – Drilling (2 Hours)

June 25, 2018June 28, 2018 admin

It has been a long time since the last update! I caught a really bad cold last Sunday that basically

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06/16/2018 Horizontal Stabilizer – Fitted Inner Ribs (5.5 Hours)

June 17, 2018June 17, 2018 admin

Today I spent a couple hours on fitting the inner ribs (well I called them “inner” as they will be

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06/14/2018 Horizontal Stabilizer – Cleco Left Skin (1 Hour)

June 15, 2018June 21, 2018 admin

I clecod the skin onto left half of the horizontal stabilizer today. Initially when removing the protective plastic on the

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06/13/2018 Horizontal Stabilizer – Cleco Left Side Skeleton (1.5 Hour)

June 14, 2018June 14, 2018 admin

Today I started the section in the plan that’s called “Drilling the horizontal stabilizer”, which is essentially putting the skins

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