14/11/2021 - dimple countersink sideskirt - 2h

Did some more finishing work on the side skirts on the pilot sided.

Attached and removed the side skin multiple times to bend the skirt down a bit in order to make it fit perfectly on the bottom side with the side of the fuselage skin.

Enlarged the holes final size with a reamer and dimpled for the corresponding hole sizes.

Countersunk the C-759 inner skirt brace and dimpled the bottom side of the C-791 canopy skirt brace

Clecoed everyting back in place for final fitting.

The gap in the front is rather large by the fact that the forward top skin it inside quite a lot. I assume this will be covered and solved by the forward epoxy fairing that encloses the windscreen and overlaps with the front of the canopy.

The side looks really good and has no bonding at all with the top of the canopy deck. If this part would not be cut away, it would not be able to open the canopy without chafing the side skin by the form of the side fuselage.

Just a little wide on the rear side, I will fine tune this when I make the epoxy rear skirt.

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