November 27, 2005

After getting home from Chicago this morning,I managed to sneak a little time in at the hangar. I din’t have my camera with me though, so no pics. I managed to finish off all the Skybolt flanges for the firewall, and riveted the lower ones, and the left side one on. I can’t rivet the upper ones yet because these will go on when the top forward fuselage skin gets riveted, which will be a while yet.

I still need to drive a few rivets, and tomorrow a shipment from the Yardstore should arrive with a no hole yoke, and some different bucking bars so I can finish it all up. Then I can get the skybolts in the cowl too as there’s also a pair of Camloc pliers in there. Once that’s all done, it’s back to the baffles. You need the lower cowl in place in order to do the front floors of the baffles.