Here's the obligatory photo of me working on the plane to prove to the feds that I really built it. After getting all the ribs prepared (finally) the left horizontal stabilizer gets clecoed together, skin and all:
Mary couldn't resist putting in some clecoes too:
Along the inboard portion of the front spar (HS-702) and the root ribs (HS-404/405), only the skin is prepunched, so you have to do a bit of layout work to get the rest of the holes drilled. But in the olden days builders had to do this for the whole airplane, so I guess I can handle a couple feet of rivet holes:
Here the root ribs are temporarily clamped in place to mark the approximate rivet locations. The cleco side clamps really lead the way for this part of the project.
Now the root ribs have been removed, fluted, gotten a centerline marked on them, reinstalled, and are being drilled. I got all the holes in the HS-405 rib drilled to the skin and rear spar before I had to put the tools away.
