Ivan's RV-7

Fitting the right auxiliary longeronTimer icon3h

February 24, 2023

Drilled the right auxiliary longeron to the skin and worked on a stiffener.

Same story as for the left side and drilled all the holes in the right auxiliary longeron.

The right auxiliary longeron is drilled.

View from the outside.

View from the other side.

Then I made small angle clips for the forward stiffeners. They are a tiny bit trickier than I initially thought -- one flange needs some tiny tapering so it fits between the firewall angle and the skin.

I did not drill them to make it easier to fit to the firewall angle and to the longerons.

Angle attachment clips.

The F-719 stiffeners are a piece of an AA6-063X3/4X3/4 angle that has a joggle on one side to fit over the F-704 bulkhead.

I don't like this joggle!

The joggle is not perfectly formed, also after fitting it to the fuselage and marking the location of the holes, I found that the aft hole on the skin would be directly over the bend line.

The hole falls on the bend!

I did not like that, so decided to replace them with the straight angles with fabricated attachment clips.

The first attempt looked okay, but I thought that I can keep the flange of the stiffener that goes over the F-704.

The first attempt with an attachment clip.

So I did the part again and got the following parts. I think I went a bit overboard with the number of rivets -- there will be 6 rivets total connecting the stiffener to the small angle clip, 5 of which will be AD4 rivets.

This is what it looks like installed on the fuselage.

Partially completed!