Today Teri met me at the hangar and we put the two fuselage halves back together. A little bit of study of the plans and the video and I convinced myself it was ok to rivet most of the remaining…
Category: Fuselage
Rear Fuselage Riveting Part 3 (1.5 h)
After giving it some thought during the week I decided I would take the incorrectly positioned control tunnel side out and move it forward of the baggage upright (instead of behind where it is supposed to go) and see if…
Rear Fuselage Riveting Part 2 (3h)
Hoping to finish off the rear fuselage and get onto the mating of the two halves, I riveted the flaperon control cover. There’s a difference here from the video where they say not to rivet the hole line next to…
Rear Fuselage Riveting Part 1 (4h)
The next few visits are all about riveting! Which means they are also all about deburring which is not so good, but as long as the pile of unattached aluminum goes down, it is all good. Before you can start…
ELT Antenna Complete (15 m)
Huzzah, I finally discovered why I had been continuously messing up the cable construction, the 10th watching of the EAA video on the subject pointed me to the error of my ways. Basically I was using the wrong hole for…