Finishing aft fuselage work - 16/11/2013

Today, we finished the last rivetting on the aft fuselage. Geert came over and gave me hand on rivetting it all together.

 

Some rivets on the aft side underneath the j-channel stiffeners are hard to set and have to be bucked blindly. But it all went fine in the end. I still have to decide if I will install a spacer between the tail wheel mount and the bulkheads. I have the impression that my last bulkhead gets pulled in a little. So might loosen this up again and add a spacer. I'll revisit this later when join both parts of the fuselage Next, I'll start working on the center fuselage section


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