Well it's been an interesting week so far! Been putting together our avionics order, and started fabricating a mount for the circuit breaker panel to go on the lower left side of the forward fuselage, under the air vent. We've also gotten a few short sessions of sanding the cabin top in here and there, but it kinda dragged on over a number of days with no real feeling of forward progress. Finally though, the cabin top was sanded enough to fit properly in place, and allow the aft top skin to be clecoed in place over it. This is easily one of the top 10 most exciting moments so far in the build, because all of a sudden it strikes you-- hey, you've got a roof!
The next thing to do is match-drill a number of holes along the mating parts and begin to cleco the cabin top to the rest of the structure.
Drilling the forward-most row of holes in the aft top skin into the aft flange of the cabin top
Drilling the row of holes along the top of the mid fuse side skins
Clamping the door frames into place to get everything aligned properly for drilling
That's pretty much it for today... lots of sanding and drilling. Stay tuned for more sanding and drilling!
