I have been bending on the canopy frame for quite a bit of time and it drives me nutz. Time to do something else in between that changes my mindset.
To do this, I started working on the elevator fairings. These are fairings that came with the empenage kit and have been waiting for a long time to be installed.
First measured and fitted the fairings between the skins. I actually made the mistake of trying to cut of from the flange of the epoxy but then noticed that it's better to just insert the whole flange extending over de flange of the rib. the pop rivets will pull this together and there is more epoxy material left to grab the flange of the fairing.
in the next picture, I finished drilling the fairing #40.
As you can see, the end of the fairing nicely matches the end of the skin. As this is a control surface, you want to be as acurate as possible. (I know: "I'm being anal again")
Then updrilled the holes to #30 to receive the pop rivets.
I will probably still install a AN4 nutplate on the arm to add washers when balancing the elevator. It's a common technique that can be found on many builder blogs.
