From here there a quite a few pieces of metal that need to be placed inside the rear fuselage and drilled out and it should go together quite quickly. The DVDs for this phase intermix installing the controls with the…
Rear Fuselage Final Assembly (8.5h)
Today was the absolute last day to work on the plane with my Dad’s help and I knew he really wanted to see it finished. I thought we could do it, he didn’t think so but we would give it…
Rear Fuselage Longerons and Baggage Back (5h)
I sure do have a saint for a wife, letting me, encouraging me, even, to work some more on the plane even though it is New Years Day. It is definitely true that you can’t do this kind of project…
Rear Fuselage First Assembly and Top Skin (5.5h)
Big day today, we’re going to see the rear fuselage frame assembled for the first time. Well, hopefully. Started out by riveting the HT Frames to the bottom skin. Then we clecoed the pilot side skin to the bottom skin…
Rear Fuselage Bottom Skin Longerons (2.5h)
Next up we have to drill the bottom longerons to the side skins. To do this we hold the side skin up to the bottom skin and cleco it to the HT frames that have been put back on the…
Rear Fuselage Pilot-side Skin (4.5h)
Today was pretty much the same as the previous day but for the other side skin. The only difference is that first we enlarged the holes for the HT frames in the bottom skin, deburred and primed. After that it…