The Journey Begins! (4 hrs)

With the success of the tool box fresh in my mind, I decided that I could start working on the Tail Kit.  The first step is to cut a 16" slice out of the Vertical Stabilizer Spar doublers.  Scary for the first step!  I have used my new band saw a couple times, but didn't like the cut it was making with the band that was included with it so I replaced it with a very fine tooth band and that seemed to cut a lot better.

I got the two doublers from the parts and measured twice and marked the cuts.  Here goes nothing!  After the cuts and running them on the deburing wheel for a bit, they looked pretty good if I did say so myself. :)

Pictures to come.

Spent the rest of the day clecoing, drilling, un-clecoing, deburing and reading the steps.  Did around 4 hours of work and then cleaned up the shop.  Not bad for a first day!