Sunday 10 May 2009

10th May 2009 - Baggage compartment angles and tabs

I started today by positioning and installing another 28 tabs: 3 to secure the right interior over door panel, 7 to fix the rear spar carry through cover, 8 to fix the left and right baggage compartment roof lining side supports, 1 to fasten the right seat filler panel, 7 to mount the rear bulkhead angles and 2 to fix the front of the baggage floor side angles. That makes a total of 315 so far but hopefully that's pretty much it. Next job was to bend strips of 0.050" aluminium to make the baggage compartment floor support angles and the baggage compartment rear bulkhead support angles. These were cut to length and match drilled to the tabs to create the basic baggage compartment framework. The rear spar carry through cover was then match drilled to it's tabs. The rear of this acts as the front edge for the baggage compartment roof lining. Next a piece of 0.025" aluminium sheet was folded to provide a cover for the left fuselage side diagonal behind the rear side window. This was drilled to the rear window sill and creates an upper edge for the baggage compartment side wall. Finally, two lengths of 0.025" aluminium sheet were folded to create the roof lining side supports and these were match drilled to their tabs. The roof lining does not extend all the way to the side of the fuselage as a space is required for the aileron and flap pushrods to connect to the levers on the torque tubes. The last picture is looking up in the fuselage with the front to the top of the picture and shows the gap between the upper longeron and the edge of the right hand roof lining support


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