Fuselage - 4

October 05, 2014 - 16 hours, 425 total hours on the project. This is a summary of work performed over the past two weekends. Focus of effort was assembly of the left and right seat floor assembly and associated subassemblies.

First task was to prepare all subassemblies that make up the pulley brackets; flaperon mixer are assembly; seat ribs; and finally, the left and right seat floor assemblies.

In this picture you can see the elements of the pulley and flaperon mixer assembly. Priming complete.

 Pictured here are the seat ribs. There are four ribs each, left and right seat.

 The pulley bracket assembly is then cleco'd and riveted.

 This  is the completed pulley bracket assembly that mounts between the middle two seat ribs of the right set floor assembly.

 Here is the completed flaperon mixer assembly. It mounts to the inside left seat assembly. The mixer is essentially towards the center of the fuselage.

 Here's an error that I'll point out. My mistake- if you look at the left nutplate attach, bottom rivet, you can see an extra dimple hole. The dimple die was off a little bit and I managed to create a new hole.

 Pulley bearing mounted between the two inboard seat ribs.

 Flaperon mixer mounted between  the two left inboard ribs.

 The next few pictures show the left a right seat floor assembly attached to the center section bulkhead.

 Bushings in place on all ribs. Still need to complete riveting of the assemblies to the bulkhead.

Fuselage - 3

September 7, 2014 - 18 hours, Total 409 hours

Over the past two weeks I'm made good progress. The last two weekends have been spent installing the baggage floor, or the aft portion of the fuselage. Work has included installation of the floor surface and supporting structure.
As you can see, I made considerable progress before taking my first picture. Not sure how that happened.
In the next few pictures you can see the left and right baggage skins and support structure.

View of aft fuselage baggage area. Baggage bulkhead and ribs. Also, center lower horizontal piece is the bearing bracket brace.

Baggage section tilted up to see baggage skins, left and right side.

View from the opposite, under side with supporting structure attached.

Nice view of the two bears bracket assemblies attached to thebaggage ribs.

I shoukld say- there are plenty of nutplates and the associated dimpling that must take place. Here's a view of a number of them from the bottom side.

A view of the nutplate from the top.

Pictured here are the spar receptable and support.

Here's a nice view spar receptable and receptable support.