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…
Category: Fuselage
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…
More Firewall (2h)
After yesterday’s success, it was back to the firewall. But first I pilot drilled the cabin frame through the pre-drilled holes in the cabin sides. I need to do the same at the top but until I get a step…
Fuselage and Cabin Frame Joining (2.5h)
Today was a milestone day, the joining of the two fuselage parts and installation of the cabin frame. But how did we get there? Well, we started off with some help and not just any old help, but my wife’s…
Firewall Session 1 (1.5 hr)
Yesterday Teri and I went to the hangar to mate the fuselage parts together finally but it didn’t work out, Teri got a nasty scratch from a skin edge and so we called it quits. So with that put off…