Author Archives: pclifton

On the other hand, the back of the fuselage is looking nice and smooth now. Just got that one line of holes on either side left to do:

Not wanting to waste a holiday, I moved on to starting canopy work. The first portion of canopy fitting is just fitting the slider frame, and the first part of that is working with the rails that the canopy slides on. … Continue reading →

First up this morning, before heading over for the usual Sunday morning coffee across the runway, I got Josie’s help with dimpling the rest of the turtledeck skin. There weren’t a ton of holes to take care of here, and … Continue reading →

Today was just getting stuff ready for the tail riveting, roughly along three lines: removing stuff from the tail area and cleaning, working on the turtledeck skin, and making sure there’s nothing else I want to get done before turning … Continue reading →

In the next bay aft, the situation is similar, except there’s a much longer run between bulkheads, which means more opportunity for the cables to meet the lines. To help prevent this, I added a zip tie pad on the … Continue reading →

Well, I thought this would be a pretty straightforward evening of work. All I needed to do was to pull the pitot and AoA lines back through the conduit and figure out how to route them to the ADAHRS shelf. … Continue reading →