Day 47

Made some exciting progress today. Sling support got back to us regarding our missing instructional material for the bottom floor connection to the main center spar. It indeed was not available in the build manual. They were able to provide us with a pdf file and rivet detail. We procured some corrosion inhibitor and ran the appropriate steal rivets. Then ran the remaining aluminum rivets in the bottom.

After completing the bottom skins it made it much easier to reposition the body to make working on the front rudder pedals much more convenient. There were several channels, brackets, grommets, rods, stops and cables to get all properly aligned for the rudder pedals. Some pieces had to have a small amount of material filed off to slow smooth movement. The manual provided measurements to go by that’s were helpful. After insuring everything would work smoothly we then riveted and bolted everything into place.