Only worked on the kit for a short time late this afternoon. The girl left home, moving into a duplex (right behind Central Market, Borders, and Westgate theatre, verry cool!) with some of her friends. A few of us helped with the moving. Then I drove up to North Austin to help my Mom with a few items, such as getting her wireless router working again. The cable company just unplugged it, and it's been drawing power, but unused, for about a year. Are you the family IT support? Sometimes I just have to shake my head in amazement. C'mon Mom, you don't have to let all those programs install toolbars onto your browser. And you CAN change the default page. Oy-vey! Arggh!
And then back the sanity of building an airplane - after battling the most incredible assortment of driving skills on the way home.
Bolt forward 904 bulkhead to center section assembly.
Cleco and screw seat and baggage skins to assembly.
Start cutting aft part of longerons to fit into fuselage. I noticed that my regular builder sites don't say much at all about the aft portion of the longerons. I put it off till now, it seems like such an important bit of work, but the drawings don't provide very much guidance, except for the 173 and 7/16 cut. And then the other cuts are referenced to that mark, and to the aft deck. It seems like this is crucial to getting the fuseage symmetric and properly sized. But it must be a non-event. Just trim it like the drawings IMPLY, and it all works out.
The cut that really bothers me is the notch to fit arount the HS attach straps. But really, it doesn't have to be perfect. As long as the vertical longeron flange is OK, the horizontal flange is only needed this far aft as a mounting bracket for the aft deck.
