Tail Cone 10-12-1 to 10-13-2
It was now time to work on attaching the top skins to the tail cone. I began by deburring and clecoing the F-1009 bulkhead frame to the aft deck. I left the aft deck clamps in place to keep it tight to the longerons. Aft bulkhead section clecoed to aft deck I then fluted each of the bulkhead tabs sitting above the longerons that had two holes, adding a heavy flute evenly spaced between the holes. Tabs with 2 holes heavily fluted Next, I inserted the 3 top J-channel stiffeners into the bulkhead slots, ensuring that the stiffeners were lined up with the tabs as directed in the plans. Top stiffeners put in place, ready for the skin to be attached Top stiffeners, view from below I then proceeded to cleco the aft top skin in place. I worked from the center of the skin, down each side of the tail cone as suggested in the plans. Then skin was somewhat difficult to bend, especially around the F-1008 bulkhead, but it came together nicely and all holes lined up without too much trouble. After I ...