Category: Fuselage

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 got all the skins and other misc parts primed today. This was a pretty big batch!    

All the parts started to get permanently attached tonight. First came the cross brace that supports the tops of the rear seats, and then came

Continuing on where I left off last night, I placed the forward longerons and got them riveted to the appropriate brackets on the firewall. Fir

This time, I’m actually riveting side skins! I got a good start on getting the right side skins riveted in place today. Some of the

Same as yesterday. I finished all the riveting I could reach on the right skins, which turned out to be all of them but the

Very quick night tonight. Colleen came out to help me rivet the two lower rivet lines on the front skins.

I installed the front floor boards tonight. It’s pretty straight forward. The only thing I did in addition to what’s called for in the plans

The landing gear mounts got bolted into the airplane tonight. Again, pretty straight forward. It was a little tight sticking my arm in between the