19 Aug 2023
Cleaning fuselage skins and riveting fuselage ribs
Degreased and scuffed various fuselage skins.
Riveted rear fuselage ribs 2 and 4 and most of ribs 3 and 5. Waiting for some parts from Sling to complete ribs 3 and 5 - one piece of each one had one side duplicated instead of supplying a left and right component. Using the jig was trickier than anticipated - the KAI reverses the direction of the illustrations between ribs and versus the jig, so left and right in the KAI versus the jig is not always as it seems. Luckily, there are other methods to ensure the right parts are in the right place, so it all worked out in the end. Provided feedback to Sling on this aspects as well as some incorrect rivet counts and missing illustrations so that they can improve the KAI.
Riveted longeron 8 with the rear tie down ring.
