Mid Fuse Bulkheads

We typically don't do much work in the factory on Fridays, but a low beer intake at the usual Friday after-work bar session combined with a high motivation level yielded a couple hours working on the plane tonight. We dug through the hardware bags and found the drill bushing we needed to match-drill the landing gear to the center section bulkheads. After drilling, the landing gear mount looked like this:

Landing gear mounts: These won't be fully installed for a while yet, but the match-drilling needed to happen now so that the rest of the assembly could be put together, and then these should easily just bolt into place later on.

With the mounts drilled, the prep work for the first of four bulkheads was done, and it was time to pull it all back apart and get started on the second.

The F-1004B Center Section Bulkhead with aft seat supports, hat stiffener, and L/R bulkheads attached.

Going pretty smoothly so far! Each bulkhead has a pretty high number of rivets that hold everything together, so it's definitely a workout on the drill going through every hole.

That's pretty much it for tonight... looking good! With any luck we'll be able to keep up the pace this weekend... stay tuned!