Started out the day by dismantling the baggage back area so that I can start to think about antennae. Also, the very top holes in the baggage back are too tight with the top skin to get any rivet gun…
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Forward Fuselage Pre-Rivet Prep (4 hr)
There are three flanges on each seat base that go up against the cabin side, two of which are pre-drilled. In order to drill these into the cabin side I used my 12″ bit to score the location of two…
Seat Bases
At the end of yesterday’s post I mentioned that the seat bases were just too wide to fit inside the joined fuselage, but were fine when the two parts were unattached. Well I had planned to spend some time today…
Firewall Install (2 hr)
Today I wanted to separate the two fuselage halves and we asked my wife’s Uncle Allen if he could return to help. On the basis of the more the merrier, we also had her cousin Paul come over and, with…
Firewall Finishing (8.5 hrs)
This weekend I spent two days at the hangar in order to finish the firewall. I could see that I was close, and didn’t want to return to it next weekend for some minor finishing task (aka riveting). So the…