Time to test-fit the RF skins, the left skin fits without any issues but unfortunately the 4 mm holes of the right skin don’t align.
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Category: Rear fuselage
Shoulder harness attachments 2
After a long time, working on other projects, I’m back on the Sling project. First thing is measuring the shoulder harness assemblies length as requested by Sling Aircraft.
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Rivet left and right skin 5
Alignment was good so it’s time to shoot some rivets.
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Alignment rear fuselage 2
Since I wasn’t sure if the 0.3 degrees misalignment is with tolerances I tried to improve this.
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Alignment rear fuselage 1
The rear fuselage should be straight so that the tail is straight and the airplane flies straight so I checked the alignment.
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Correct rib 8 / skins misalignment
After consulting TAF the solution for the misalignment was up-sizing to 4.8 mm rivets.
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Test fit bulkhead / baggage floor / top skin
Just a quick hour in the workshop to test fit the bulkhead and baggage floor and verify the length of the shoulder harness attachments with the top skin in place.
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Installation GMU 11 bracket
After some thoughts about the location of the GMU 11 magnetometer it was time to mount the bracket.
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Shoulder harness attachments 1
I received 2 identical shoulder harness brackets, instead of 1 for the left side and 1 for the right side due to parts being mislabeled. TAF shipped a new one but the length was about a cm longer than the other one. So TAF shipped new ones with the same length and confirmed these were verified in an actual Sling 2.
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Prep and prime bulkhead and baggage floor
A while ago I already primed the channels for the baggage floor, but not the baggage floor skin, so that needed to be done, as well as the bulkhead skin.
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