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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.
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.
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.
Back at it after a day away from the project for Jeanie’s birthday yesterday.
Lots of little jobs to do today – nutplates, bushing clips, seat rib doublers, routing angles, and crotch strap brackets were all riveted in place. Various bolt holes were also reamed to final sizes.
Outboard seat and baggage ribs must be fluted to match the curve of the center bottom skin. Shown in work here.
Outboard seat and baggage ribs must be fluted to match the curve of the center bottom skin. Shown in work here.
