Aft fuselage

Aft fuselage – a tale of deburring

..and today I have mostly been deburring, interspersed with a bit more deburring. When I said the elevators had a lot of parts, someone at Vans must have been having a right good giggle. The…


Aft fuselage 10-05 to 10-08

This section requires the VS (fin) to be retrieved from storage in order that the rear bulkheads can be aligned and some holes of varying diameters are match and final drilled through the bulkheads into…


Aft fuselage 10-01 to 10-04

Right, here we go again. Plenty of parts to separate then deburr. The steel VS mounts have to be straightened using Van’s “whang” technique which involves putting the part in the vice, pre-loading and then…