Yup. For the second year in a row, Colleen and I shared a heart shaped pizza and inventoried airplane parts! Last time it was the
Category: Fuselage
Fuse inventory complete
I finished up inventorying all the bags that contain smaller parts like nuts, bolts, and rivets.
Fuse bulkheads initial construction
Huge day today. Basically, I’ve done all of the initial construction, drilling, and deburring on the mid fuselage bulkheads. These are the beefy cross braces
Bulkheads primed
Got all the parts from yesterday scuffed, wiped down, and primed.
Buckheads riveted and ribs started
With all the mid-fuse bulkhead parts primed, everything was riveted together. Riveting together the bulkheads finishes this section of the plans. I continued on to
Mid fuse ribs
With completed bulkheads, I started the next section of the plans which includes all the ribs that make up the floor and seat structure. First,
Seat Ribs
I messed up the video and cut off the beginning of the night, but tonight, I continued on by getting the rear seat ribs all
More ribs
I started tonight by finishing the scuffing on the parts I had ready. But by the time I had finished scuffing, I decided that I
Fuse ribs and skins
Tonight I began by clecoing in place some narrow stiffeners/ribs that give structural strength to the rear passenger’s floor. Then, all the bottom skins were
Deburring
Finished scuffing and deburring all the edges and holes of everything.