Today I was determined to finish the longerons so I can start some assembly on the fuselage. I took them upstairs to the garage (not an easy trick with two 15' lengths of 3/4" aluminum angle) to cut them off to the proper length on the bandsaw, then brought them back to the basement office/airplane factory to finish them. I bent the right longeron down 2 3/4" per the plan, then twisted it 17 degrees inboard per the plans. Then got started on the left longeron, bent the cockpit curve with the dies I had ordered online, bent the downslope front end, and twisted the portion forward of the cockpit 17 degrees inboard to mirrror the right longeron. It all came out pretty well.
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