I made a mistake taking the fuselage pieces apart as I realise that right now I’d like to be working on the front skins and firewall, and probably the main gear struts, too. So sometime soon I need to get…
Category: Fuselage
ELT installation
And for a complete change of pace, today we worked on getting the ELT installed. This is a required piece of equipment that in the event of a crash (or very bumpy landing!) will give off a signal that can…
Forward fuselage riveting (1.5 hr)
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…
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…