Tailcone attach

Another big milestone in the build.  With help of S, N, and T we were able to get the tailcone attached. We had to do a little shop shuffle moving things around so we would have room for the tailcone to be attached to the fuselage. We brought the tailcone into position. We had to peel back a little of the blue plastic in order to fit properly. The upper tabs were bent and then the tailcone aligned into place. It took a little maneuvering to get into to go into place properly, but we made it work.  The plans called for just the tailcone without feathers for this process, but since I already had the VS and stabilator installed, I didn't want to remove them.

We clecoed the tailcone and then riveted it along with the corner side skins. T worked on getting the plastic off the tailcone. It is a little tail heavy right now, but starting to really look like a plane.

Time: 3.25 hrs

Moving tail section

Tailcone brought into place

Tailcone brought into place

Peeling back blue plastic

Bending tab

Fuselage

Tailcone

Clecoing tailcone to fuselage

Clecoing tailcone

Clecoing tailcone

Riveting tailcone

Removing plastic

Tailcone attached