Finish, canopy installation

Canopy side skins clecoed in place.

Canopy side skins clecoed in place.

Canopy weighted for drilling.

First canopy clecos in place. This is right about when I realized that the rear window had to come out – and so did those first fourteen canopy clecos. It all went right back in place, of course.

My trusty rivet bucker and drilled hole backer.

Canopy side skin and aft frame drilling underway.

Initial canopy side skin and aft frame drilling complete. — with Jean Balch.

Canopy side skin and aft frame drilling complete.

Canopy side skin and aft frame drilling complete.

Canopy side skin and aft frame drilling complete.

Vertical Stabilizer Progress

Vertical stabilizer assembly continues…

Vertical stabilizer skeleton drilled and clecoed together.
Vertical stabilizer skin drilled and clecoed to the skeleton.
My camera-shy wife holding the fully-drilled vertical stabilizer assembly.
Yours truly (considerably less shy) holding the fully-drilled vertical stabilizer assembly.
Now that it’s all clecoed together, it’s time to take it all apart for deburring, priming, and final assembly.
Disassembly about to commence…