Author Archives: pclifton

As alluded to last night, tonight I finished installing the aileron trim components that rivet to the inboard seat ribs. These parts were fitted to those ribs a while back, but never actually riveted in place. The left-hand bracket, where … Continue reading →

Pretty short night of work tonight. I started off by shooting those last two rivets in the mid-cabin braces. Getting those done was mildly tedious, but not too bad overall. Definitely not the best rivets I’ve ever shot, though. Then … Continue reading →

I started out tonight by finishing attachment of the lower longerons to the forward floor. Last time, I slipped them in place, clecoed them, and installed the flush screws that go inside each gear tower. Tonight, I installed the four … Continue reading →

Aside: this actually covers work done both yesterday and today. Yesterday it was super windy, and so I scaled back my priming goals and decided to just get the longerons done. We also hosted a class at our house than … Continue reading →

So my goal for tonight was to get the upper longerons trimmed and notched at the aft end. This seemed like a fairly simple thing, but it was actually a bit tedious, mainly due to me being reeaaallly careful to … Continue reading →

Actually, that should be it for dimpling for the time being. After reading forward in the instructions last night, I decided that my plan to delay dimpling the aft side and bottom skins was a good one – so that’s … Continue reading →

Moved on to dimpling larger parts tonight. Before dimpling any of the skins, I rolled the overlapping edges on the forward and mid side skins, as well as the aft edge of the seat rib/floor assembly. The aft side skins … Continue reading →

Not a lot to report today. Basically I dimpled everything except for the skins, which will require use of the C-frame. For the most part it was uneventful, except for some spots on the forward floor. On each outboard edge, … Continue reading →

Finally…a weekend without lots of other stuff to do. Last weekend my brother was in town and I helped him with some work on his car. The previous weekend was entirely spent doing suspension work on my car. Before that…well, I … Continue reading →

Got back to work deburring tonight. I took care of the last of the parts from the seat pan, then moved on to working on the forward cabin assembly. It took quite  a while to finish that, since not only … Continue reading →