Category: Skins

Fuselage, skins underway

Center bottom skin dimpling in progress.

Center bottom skin dimpling complete.

Center section lower doublers, skin stiffeners, and nutplates riveted in place.

Aft gear brace assembly components ready for priming.

Aft gear brace assembly clecoed together and ready for the next stop, post-Thanksgiving.

Fuselage skins continued…

Idler brackets riveted to bearing and bulkhead.

Not much to see today, but lots of preparatory work done with forward and center bottom skins, doublers, and stiffeners.

Tomorrow morning, the large center bottom skin will get dimpled and then the buildup of components on it will commence.

Fuselage, ribs, skins progress

Outboard seat ribs have to be fluted to conform to the curve in the bottom skin. Done!

All the correct bolts lined up ready to attach the seat ribs to the aft center section bulkhead.

Bolting of those ribs in progress…

All happily bolted in place.

Seat ribs now fully riveted.

Baggage ribs and components ready for priming.

Bulkhead bottom channel clecoed to seat rib assembly.

Bulkhead bottom channel clecoed to seat rib assembly.

Bulkhead bottom channel riveting complete for now. The remaining seat ribs are riveted a bit later on.