What a fun and productive day… The plane is starting to look really really amazing. Today we basically finished riveting on the top skin at the back. This just needed some planning as to how to do this – some squeezing, and some hitting. The hitting was a pain, but realistically was fairly painless thanks to the fact that no-one actually needed to get inside the plane to do this. We were thinking that we would need to crawl in the back, but thanks to the stands allowing the plane to rotate, this was not needed.

We also did some riveting along the longerons further forward. This involved placing the plane upside down, and me getting under it. Surprisingly this gives really good access and there is a lot of room in the plane when it is in this orientation. This is one of the easiest ways to access the instrument panel – from what would normally be below.

We also placed the horizontal stabalizer on the back, and this looked amazing. We could not help just looking at the plane and saying WOW… What else could you say… It is now looking like a serious plane!!!