November 3, 2020
After riveting the belly it was time to move on to the sides. More clecoing of J-channel and figuring out how everything lines up. Fun to see it coming together and looking like something. And nice that all of the rivets are accessible, unlike the Horizontal Stabilizer.
November 2, 2020
Started clecoing the belly skin to the skeleton frames. Then on to riveting, yes there are an enormous number of rivets in the tail section…
November 1, 2020
Started on the tail section on Halloween. I didn’t take a lot of pictures early on the process so this post represents 10/31 and 11/1. Brackets made, angle aluminum cut. Tons of parts to debur, J-channel to cut and match drill. A bit tedious…