I got the rear floor pans installed. After riveting on a few nutplates to each floor pan, I sprayed some of the leftover fireproof expanding
Finishing the baggage door
Since I had decided to redo the baggage hinge earlier, I needed to wait to install the door permanently until I was able to prime
Priming
Primed the floor pans, tunnel covers, and side covers… as well as a few other misc parts.
Rear Floors and other panels
Today, I did all the match drilling, deburring, scuffing, and dimpling on the rear floor pans. On the advice of other builders, I’m deviating from
Door hinge, revisited
After thinking about it for a bit, I decided that if I’m building an airplane, I’m going to do it right! I just didn’t like
Baggage Door hinge install
After gluing in some insulation and riveting on the inner door skin, it was time to line up the door in the frame and drill
Baggage Door Riveting
The baggage door (minus the inner skin) is now all riveted together!
Finishing up the baggage area
At least the baggage area portion of the plans. I put in some insulation behind the side wall and riveted it in place. I also
Priming
Spent a few hours priming the baggage door parts and remaining baggage area parts.
Landscaping
This has nothing to do with airplanes, other than it caused me to not work on the plane for over a week! Colleen has some