Over the last week I finished fabricating and match-drilling the F-711 bulkhead. As I mentioned a couple of entries ago, I wasn’t happy with how the first -711 came out so I ordered new parts. This time I made sure to clamp everything down nice and tight to the drill press when drilling the 2024-T4 bar stock to the bulkheads themselves.

The bar stock came out much better this time…since these parts help hold the horizontal stab on the airplane, they should probably be done right, huh?

A little more work fabricating an angle for the top of the assembly, and the bulkhead was done…and there was much rejoicing – yaaay!