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Friday, August 25, 2017

Forward fuselage ribs and sub-panel riveting: 8 hours

  • Riveted all the nut plates and wire tie clips to the various pieces then riveted the ribs and panels together.
  • There were several difficult areas to rivet and several rivets had to be removed and re-done.
  • I installed a total of 38 nut plates and 26 wire clips. The nut plates are for mounting the avionics and avionics related structure.
  • I also put the sub-panel / rib assembly in the fuselage and now have a plan for riveting it in. After that I will start installing the avionics!

Sub-panel and ribs ready to rivet to the fuselage:

Getting there:

The center rib with the roll bar support angle was the most involved assembly:

A lot of rivets in the ADAHRS doubler: