I want to wait as long as possible with attaching the 3 rear fuselage top skins with rivets, you never know… This however leads to a problem because there is one rivet on each side that will be obscured when the rail-brackets of the sliding canopy are attached. This “impossible” rivet is to attach the front top skin to rib 1. After some thoughts a found a simple solution.
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Category: Rear fuselage
Conduits in arc
Like in the wings and RF I installed conduits in the arc, these are for the interior lights and GPS antenna.
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Rivet inside arc skin.
Time to shoot some rivets.
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Redesign joining angles
Since most of the holes of the joining angles didn’t align I decided to remake these parts. This blog entry is the work of multiple days last week.
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Soundproofing bulkhead and baggage floor
Before joining the CF to the RF is made sense to remove the bulkhead and baggage floor to add the soundproofing.
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Connection RF – CF
According the build manual you first build the RF, then the CF and thereafter join them together. But this joining is quite a challenge because there are so many stringers, brackets and skins that all need to line up. Instead I’m going to continue section by section; so first the landing gear assembly and thereafter the main spar assembly and firewall.
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Elevator AP bracket
Dummy servo and bracket installation.
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AP bracket and test fit bow
Just a quick test fit of the ap bracket and the ribs 1 and inside skin of the bow to understand the next steps.
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Rivet RF side skins
The primer was cured so it was time to rivet the side skins.
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RF side skins
Some minor tweak were done to the RF side skin before they could be primed.
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