Good. Plane. Living.

All the skins and underlying structures that needed dimpling were dimpled. I also cut out the opening in the left skin for the baggage door

I started the day by finishing deburring the skins that I didn’t get to yesterday. Then I spent the rest of the day countersinking the

Long day, short post. Today was spent disassembling, deburring, and scuffing.

After all the fussing and bending over how the firewall brackets would fit, it was time to actually drill them. Luckily, everything worked perfectly! I

Same as yesterday, with one exception. There are welded steel brackets that are riveted to the four corners of the firewall. These join the structure

I got the left front side skins clecoed in place, along with all the supporting structure that goes behind it. Once the skins were secured,

Just a little time to work on the plane tonight. I did manage to get the front fuse side skins bent. It was the same

Drilling: I got all the side skins match drilled with the underlying structure. I also match drilled the upper longerons to the rear spar assemblies,

Tonight, I started by doing some countersinking on the mid-cabin deck plates. These make up the structure of the bottom of the door. They were

The fuselage of the RV10 is basically an aluminum box. The bottom of the box is a square in the middle where the wings attach,