{"id":241,"date":"2009-06-07T23:32:02","date_gmt":"2009-06-07T23:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/?p=241"},"modified":"2009-06-07T23:32:02","modified_gmt":"2009-06-07T23:32:02","slug":"subpanel-and-forward-top-skin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/?p=241","title":{"rendered":"Subpanel and forward top skin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>4 hours.<br \/>\nDrilled deburred, dimpled F-711 skin, matchdrilling to the firewall flange.  Stainless steel is a bitch.   It&#8217;s really not advisable to run your finger along the underside of the holes to feel for burrs.   That stuff is sharp, and it has a taste for fingertips.  Imagine what it could do to your eyes.   Even so, I managed to get it all debured and dimpled, as well as drilling the center subpanel rib attach angle.   The skin is now off and put safely away while I go to town on the remaining bits.   I&#8217;m also entertaining the idea of not painting most of the interior and going with a Classic Aero Designs interior, which should give the ship a more polished aspect.   Of course, that stuff is heavy, but if I&#8217;m going to be riding in it for significant lengths of time, I want a nice, comfy ride.    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.classicaerodesigns.com\">Check out their stuff!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>4 hours. Drilled deburred, dimpled F-711 skin, matchdrilling to the firewall flange. Stainless steel is a bitch. It&#8217;s really not advisable to run your finger along the underside of the holes to feel for burrs. That stuff is sharp, and it has a taste for fingertips. Imagine what it could do to your eyes. Even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}