Category: Tail Cone

Tonight marks the first night of construction on the tail cone. As this is the last section of the empenage kit for the RV-10, today

More work much like last night. I built four more of the tail cone bulkheads.  

Tonight started out with some exciting (not really) deburring of the tail cone j-channel stiffeners. They are long and awkward, but I was able to

I started the night with a bunch of flat parts, and now, there is a pretty big aluminum box on my work bench!  

We had a lot of other stuff going on today, but I was able to squeeze in an hour and a half on the -10

The biggest accomplishment for tonight was getting the longerons in place and match drilled.  

That’s what I had on my work bench.   I say “had” because the last thing I did tonight was completely disassemble everything in preparation for deburring

Colleen and I started deburring the holes of the tail cone parts. Shortest post EVER.  

Same as last night. Might be able to finish up in one or two more nights.

It’s done. On to slightly better things, like scuffing and dimpling.