08/11/2019 - Rivet aft top skins cont'd - 3H

Next day in the aft top fuselage skin saga.
Today, we did the F-709 bulkhead. My God, it's so narrow in there. If you live in a warm area. You surely will need a fan in there.

Also did the left row of rivets in the longeron. The only clecoes left in the picture are the ones that will hold the clips for the static line. As I still need to remake some of those and prime them, I'll wait until that's finished.

On the other side, removed every other cleco and put the rivet already in with some self adhesive tape on it. It's always good when you have a helper to prepare upfront the next rivetting session. You will loose less time inside the fuselage waiting for the buddy builder to remove clecoes and insert rivets.

Some shots of the longeron rivets. Looking very good.

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