Angela's
still a bit sick, but beginning to feel quite a bit better. She
joined me back out in the shop to start riveting the top skin on the
tailcone tonight!
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(10-23 steps 1 & 2): First
we needed to move the tailcone down to a more workable level. We
cleaned our rubber floor mats off layed the tailcone on that.
Then we reinstalled the 3 top stiffeners and began clecoing the rear
top skin in place (the forward top skin will be installed when we
attach the tailcone to the rest of the fuselage.)
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(10-23 step 2):
Our plan was to rivet the skin to the stiffeners without the
sides of the topskin clecoed down as you can see. This allowed
access to the underside for bucking without someone having to be inside
the tailcone. This worked out pretty well, and we did some of our
quickest riveting to date!
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We
were only able to do part of the riveting tonight… we'll finish
up tomorrow night (hopefully), but we went ahead and clecoed the rest
of the top skin in place. You can see in the pic all the rivets
we were able to do with the "bucker" outside of the tailcone. In
order to do the remaining ones I'll wind up laying inside the tailcone
to get to them... those should be some fun pics ;-)
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