EMpennage/tailcone
Work has continued on the tailcone for the past several weeks, although a good 3 weeks was lost to poor weather and scheduling conflicts while waiting to get the parts primed. Things finally improved enough to prime over 2 (non-continuous) sessions. We're now at section 10-20 and readying for riveting of the tailcone.
Did run into one issue during re-assembly. The plans are explicit during inital assembly that you aren't to match-drill and/or dimple any holes associated with the F-1006 bulkhead. The holes in the underlying longerons and j-channel stiffeners are countersunk/dimpled as required, so during reassembly, it becomes apparent that you are clekoing a non-dimpled skin hole over a countersunk hole in the F-1032 longerons and the F-1047 stiffeners. The problem is when it comes to riveting, you won't be able to later dimple the skin at the foremost holes for the F-1047 as they will be riveted all the way up to that hole. Van's Air Force did show others have had this concern but there was really no final solution shared. Contacted Van's tech support and was given the go-ahead to dimple these 6 holes now.
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