Spent a few hours priming the baggage door parts and remaining baggage area parts.
Category: Fuselage
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
Baggage Door Riveting
The baggage door (minus the inner skin) is now all riveted together!
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
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
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
Priming
Primed the floor pans, tunnel covers, and side covers… as well as a few other misc parts.
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
Rear floor pans installed
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 up rear floors and rear covers
Today, I finished riveting in the floor pans. I also riveted in place the closeout for the rear seat brace, and riveted all the nutplates