Right HS skin
Yesterday, I completed temporary assembly of the right half of the horizontal stabilizer in the skin. This was an exciting process as you see how strong and stiff the assembly is once it is put together. I had to adjust the fluting of many of the ribs for straightness of the holes. This is where you see if they are straight or not. I decided I should just check them all with a straight edge against the holes next time.
Before assembly in the skin, I spent some quality time with the die grinder and cleaned up edges and deburred holes on the spars and doublers. I had already done the ribs. Next step is to match drill all of the skin rivet holes and disassemble again.
inboard nose rib fluting