Fuselage

The third step in the project is the fuselage kit. By the time you get to this point, the plans are still as detailed, but the detailed description and instructions in the manual get more and more high level and undetailed.
 Vans assumes that by now, you are able to figure out things by yourself as you have been doing a lot of this stuff before. In many cases, this is not such a big deal. However, there are some occasions where you have to think things through before actually getting the hands on. Be alert and think twice before doing something when you work on the fuselage kit.

I ordered my fuselage kit at the same time as the wing kit to save on the shipping cost and started fuselage construction on the 1st of January 2013.

Clicking the fuselage sub sections on the left side menu will only display articles related to the selected subsection section.

Below is a list of all articles in the fuselage building process listed chronologically per subsection as I wrote them.

Articles in Fuselage kit

Fuselage Kit

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