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Date:  6-22-2011
Number of Hours:  2.50
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Brief Description:  Riveting continues - 2

After riveting the floor stiffners I clecoed the bottom skin in place. Now all that is left (at least at this stage) is a couple of hundred rivets. Nothing like the present to get started. The instructions suggest starting at F-704 and moving aft and forward. In photo two you can see the beginnings of the riveting process. I started with all the 470-4 size rivets that will be "buried" under the wing.

Update - A little later I got a chance to squeeze a few more rivets. My wife agreed to go over in the morning to help buck rivets, so I went for the rivets I could squeeze. There are twenty-three rivets in the tail connecting the tail skin to the longeron and six "keeper" rivets that help hold the skin in place until the upper skins are inplace. Those I could get to with the rivet squeezer. A little bit further. Photos tomorrow.
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Bottom forward skin in place

Bottom forward skin in place

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Beginning the side rivets

Beginning the side rivets

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