Yep, feeling much better so I spent a little more time in the garage. I managed to get some riveting done on the firewall gussets, the slider deck and gussets, and I even started on the baggage rib to tail cone rivets. Those are a little hard to get to so I am going to have to get some help from one of the kids. On a different note I had a first today...I crawled into the airplane for the first time! Kinda bare in there but that's not going to be the case for long. :-)
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Firewall gussets riveted in. look at that mess on the floor of the plane! somebody should clean that. |
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The sides and the gusset riveted in. |
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The elevator bell-crank. Those little tube spacers were fun to fabricate. |