Fwd Fuselage Structure 28-05
All the joints around the Muffler tunnel have to be sealed with Proseal. Messy old job. The Firewall assembly is then trial mounted to the Muffler and floor panels. MAJOR COCKUP. I had left the…
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Fwd Fuselage Structure 28-04
The Muffler Sides are riveted to the floor panels after adding some gloup (Proseal) to keep oil sludge out of the cockpit. I back riveted the sides on which was successful but messy. Next the…
Fwd Fuselage Structure 28-02 to 28-04
Skin stiffeners and antenna doublers riveted to the Forward Bottom Skins. I had already enlarged the hole for the second comms antenna as I intend to fit a second box. In fact, having spoken to…
Fwd Fuselage Lower Structure 28-01
All parts prepped ready for construction of the Fwd Fuselage Lower Structure. I had already primed the floor panels but they needed to be dimpled. I am still undecided as to the finish on the…
Fuselage 26-21 to 26-22
This hasn’t been my favourite part of the build but it’s finished. Riveting the baggage ribs to the bulkhead presented an issue where I couldn’t get the gun on the baggage rib side due to…
Fuselage 26-14 to 26-20
Fuselage bottom skin mounted vertically to assist with riveting the bottom skin. Just had to wait for assistant riveter to come off night shifts. There are a couple of rivets which are virtually obscured by…
Fuselage 26-11 to 26-14
Doublers and skin stiffeners back riveted to the Centre Bottom Skin. I had a few issues with back-riveting the 426-4 rivets and they aren’t as consistent as I would like but they are acceptable. I…
Fuselage 26-08 to 26-11
Tonight I added the F-01405 bulkhead to the Inboard Seat Ribs. Once this is done a bulkhead angle is match drilled and then riveted to the bulkhead. Although it shows where not to rivet this…
Fuselage 26-02 to 26-07
A goodly amount of construction now and the section is looking like a bit of an aeroplane. Lots of stiffeners, routing angles, nutplates and brackets for the seat belts to be riveted to the seat…
Section 26-02
Doublers added to outboard baggage ribs.