Saturday, June 24, 2023

Forward Floor Riveting

It's been too long since I've been able to work on the plane!  Today Rose continued to help me rivet the bottom forward fuselage.  Doing this myself would have taken days of awkward positioning and goofy jigs to hold bucking bars, not to mention the sub-par results I would have had.  With Rose's help, we got the entire bottom floor done in about 30 minutes!  Some aspects of building are much easier to do alone, but when it comes to riveting hard to reach areas, a partner makes things go about 1000x faster.  Next up will be the remaining rivets in the forward section, then we'll move to the center and rear fuselage section.  That will be when I'll finally be able to flip the canoe over and have a fuselage to sit in and make airplane noises!