I wish I had remembered to take a picture of us riveting the skin on...but basically it looks like it did in yesterday's picture, with the thing flipped upside down. I laid under the structure and bucked while Ken shot from above. Very simple, plus or minus a little contorting here and there.
Once that was done we flipped the center section upright and placed it on a couple of sawhorses (glad I bought two sets of two). The next step was to drill the outboard seat ribs. All that careful fluting and curving last night paid off immensely today...the center line was dead-on in the skin holes. So I drilled and clecoed the outboard ribs.
Next, we clecoed the seat skins on. It's hard to mess up with all of these pre-punched components. After doing all the center fuselage assembly, I knew I did it right since the seat skin holes lined up perfectly.
Here's Ken clecoing the left baggage skin in place.
Next I drilled all of the holes in the skins to full size.
Then I drilled the outboard seat ribs to the F-704 bulkhead flanges. Those are the seven #30 holes on the right side. I had previously just clamped the rib in place. Oh, by the way, I had to trim about 1/32" from the forward edge of these outboard seat ribs so that they would rest in place against the flange without interfering with the elbow/bend. The arrows here point to the seat skin screw holes that need to be drilled into the outboard seat rib. I'm not exactly clear on whether that should be done now or later. The instructions say to drill to the bulkhead, and they mention that the rib flange should extend .032" out from under the seat skin, but they don't say to drill these holes yet. So I need to figure out if that's saved for when the side skins go on or what. I presume now is the time to drill these, but I'll ask around first.
