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Thursday, March 19, 2015

Canopy structure: 4.9 hours


  • Trimmed and fitted spacers for roll bar bolts - very close tolerances, took a lot of time
  • Double checked canopy brace position
  • Removed upper forward skin
  • Temporarily bolted roll bar to fuselage - used CA model glue to glue the washer and nut on the aft spacers - worked great
  • Researched sliding canopy info online 
Roll bar bolt spacers allow the roll bar fasteners to "clamp" the longerons: