Drilling the aft fuselage and rudder cable fairings
3h
September 28, 2022
Today I drilled rudder cable fairings to the fuselage and drilled the fuselage holes.
The first thing I did today was to drill the rudder cable fairings to the fuselage skins. I could have fabricated one myself, but instead, I bought them on Aircraft Spruce.
I fit them over the rudder cable to find the location they fit the best, then match-drilled #41 holes with the fuselage.
Finally, I drilled every single hole in the aft fuselage (except for the longeron holes and the holes of the F-706 bulkhead)
![A rudder cable fairing.](/_app/immutable/assets/0-rudder-cable-fairing.Bn68EV0D.jpeg?nf_resize=smartcrop&w=180&h=180)
![The fairing drilled to the fuselage.](/_app/immutable/assets/1-fairing-drilled.Ct5DE5bn.jpeg?nf_resize=smartcrop&w=180&h=180)
![The fairing on the other side.](/_app/immutable/assets/2-fairing-other-side.Ba7hwQgK.jpeg?nf_resize=smartcrop&w=180&h=180)
![The aft fuselage drilled.](/_app/immutable/assets/3-fuselage-drilled.C3wyl0Yu.jpeg?nf_resize=smartcrop&w=180&h=180)