Yesterday we mostly worked on the fuselage of the plane. There were a few pesky rivets that we needed to install. The first were on the top of the sill where the canopy will eventually sit. Amazingly, despite the horrible lack of access underneigth the rivets, these rivets went in amazingly well. I dont think we managed to stuff up any of them which was really good.

Then we installed the armrest which was simplicity in itself… It just worked. Then we installed some rivets at the bottom of the plane near the armrest. These were much harder thanks to the fact that the rivet gun did not actually fit – the stem was too short to hit the rivets. Placing a long piece of steel into the rivet gun allowed us to rivet the parts in.

The other thing was that we had undercoated some of the tail plane on the skin when we originally put them together. The propblem is that the pant used on the skins does not really adhere to the undercoat – so I got most of the job of using paint stripper on the undercoat to remove it. Not a bad job… Just a bit of work…