Van's RV-9A in Aurora

The Big Picture

The Big Picture
Flying! 8/28/2011

Saturday, July 11, 2009

6.5 hrs, 52 rivets
Made 615C spacers.
Cut inboard seat ribs and modified for the removable bridge.



Drilled all the seat ribs for nutplates and dimpled. Countersink all the needed nutplates. Spent a few minutes to make a nutplate countersink jig from hardwood.

This makes it a lot easier when there are so many to do.



Riveted nutplates to the 8 inboard seat ribs.
Post Edit: Don't do this yet! The center baggage and seat rib nutplates are supposed to be riveted together with the baggage and seat floors.

Cleco seat ribs to 704 aft bulkhead.



Cleco baggage ribs to 705 bulkhead. Join seat and baggage ribs at 705.



Start clecoing bottom skin on.