Drilling left elevator skin

There are those pilots who have landed wheels up and those who will. I'm still in the second category.

There are those builders who have drilled their finger and those who will. I guess you know where this is going. No, don't ask. I will not tell you about that rear hole in the stiffener that needs to be matchdrilled to the skin, nor about that very stiffener bending away from the skin under the slightest pressure of the drill, nor about ... no, I won't tell you. Fortunately it wasn't a central hit.

The skin I actually wanted to pierce belongs to the left elevator. Tonight I drilled the stiffeners and the E-615PP trim access reinforcement plate to the skin. Strange thought that this wobbly something will in the future tell the plane how fast to go:

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