Top Rear Skin Fitted

I now have the rear top skin fitted and drilled. This was pretty straight forward. Cleco skin in place and drill the holes.







I also did some work on the two F-6111 Aft Skin reinforcement ribs. These were extremely tricky as VANs seem to have left out the plans drawing (Plans Drawing page 41). As I have been reading on other builder pages, this was difficult for just about everyone. So, shooting blind with no picture, I followed an RV-9 builder who said to just file the bottom edge down so that it is the correct angle to meet the longeron. The line up the center line for the bottom hole and go for it one hole at a time. Alternating drilling a hole and filing the top, it ended up coming out perfect. Go Blind Man!!!.

Here are a few pics.

Original piece:


Finished rib, all drilled, filed and twisted.