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NC12350 Monocoupe 110 |
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Fuselage Woodwork (cont.) |
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Soaked the skin in the spa over night and then clamped it in place to dry. Also used a steamer to help persuade it into place. Wet plywood shown clamped to the right.
Finished piece, sanded and poly coated shown below. Just a little fill added to the seam at the notch. |
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Made a pattern and cut the wood piece that goes below the D window and down to the longeron.
Need to order up some more plywood to finish up the small area around the step.
Stringers added down the side.
Upper longeron pieces left long to be trimmed to match up to trailing edge of wing. |
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Took the fuselage back up to the hangar and put the wing on. Next step is to reposition the top longeron formers to that they just line up with the trailing edge of the wing. In order to do this I needed to remake half of the little donuts to provide a little stan-off (about 1/4”) up towards the wing. |
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Notched the top longeron formers up at the trailing edge and cut a cross board to insert there. You can see the 1 degree of dihedral in the trailing edge. Still some fitting to do here, but getting close.
Final detail below. I fabricated .063 steel brackets to connect the cross board to the stringers and to the cross tube on the fuselage. |
