Sunday, December 15, 2019

Fuselage, FWD/MID Side Structure (Part 32)

Back to work on the Right Side Skin.  I continued moving forward toward the Firewall.  In the picture below, you can see the rivets installed in the Longeron (circled) and the Firewall (more on that below).  You can’t see from this angle, but the F-01402-R Side Frame and F-01400A & B & C-R Stiffeners are clecoed into place on the inside of the Right Side Skin.


Here is the outside of the Firewall with the right side Piano Hinge.....

.....and the inside.

Next, I clecoed the Wing Root Fairing into place on the Right Side Skin.  However, I decided to wait on installing the nine K1100-08D nutplates until after the Fairing is riveted to the Side Skin.  The plans only have you install certain nutplates initially, and the rest after the Fairing is attached to the Side Skin, but I found a few nutplates to still be a little in the way when I completed the left side.  They will be pretty easy to install later.

This is the inside of the Right Side Skin showing the Side Frame and Stiffeners mentioned in the opening paragraph.  Everything fit together perfectly.

This is a close up of the where the Upper Longeron Assembly is temporarily bolted to the Firewall and the associated rivets.