20/02/2020 - right wing inner bottom skin - 6h

Continuing closing the right wing. Inner skin rivetting. This is really a slow and unpleasant work. Working blind, guessing if your rivet is coming out good.

Not ideal for anal guys like myself. I'm using the usb camera and it helps but it remains a very slow job.

Made some shots of the finished rivets.

Here is some rivets at the aft spar.

and some on the inner ribs

The last image shows what has been completed and also gives a good image of what you see on the tablet through the camera.

as you can see, not a lot done in 6hours time.  Some people do this in an afternoon. I can't get my head around it.


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