Brief Description: Continued mid-fuselage skins and structure
Sometimes you can spend days in the shop and outwardly there appears to be little progress. Then a day like today arrives and suddenly the neighbors can actually recognize what it is you have been building all these months.
I began today by modifying my skin rolling tools to process the right fuselage skin (just a minor mod to the two pieces of angle aluminum which clamp the skin edge). Once the right mid-fuselage skin was rolled, I cut the air vent holes in both the skin and the appropriate rib in the seat rib subassembly. This was accomplished very carefully with a fly-cutter in the drill press.
Once the skin was deburred it was fitted to the mid-fuselage assembly after clecoing the center section to the front of the seat rib subassembly. The rolled area looks good but is going to need just a little more bend at the edge in order to get a tight lap joint where the bottom skin overlaps.
