On Monday, fabricated the fairings for the vertical stabilizer and the rudder and riveted them. Before mounting the vertical stabilizer to the tailcone, I attached the rudder and checked for any interference. (This was the subject of a VAF post). Had an interference on top at the fairings and the left VS skin hit the rudder skin when the rudder was full left. Had to take about 1/32" off of the aft left side VS skin and some off the VS fairing at the interference. Mounted the VS and rudder on the tailcone.
On Tuesday, started the tailcone fairing. A lot of cutting and sanding. All went well and am about 75% complete. Will have to mount the HS on Wednesday to set the final alignment of the fairing and check the clearances.
Time Yesterday and Today - 13 hours
