Today, I begun installing the forward canopy frame. First the skin gets clecoed to the frame. Here the whole is installed on the fuselage, now on to the adjusting.



I have the same problems as other builders. First the aluminium block on the hinge block is to big a,d needs to be trimmed.



Then, the lower part of the hinge arm rubs against the subpanel. So, I trimmed the subpanel, which was not really necessary as arm was not tight with the upper part of the frame (barely visible on the upper right).



Then the seal support was too wide, I had to trim 1/10 inch.



I made a rough check of were the hinge arms will be drilled, here is the right arm.



Here is the left arm. The final holes will be slightly lower, as I made the marks before readjusting the arms position.



This is a view from above. The upper skin is the forward fuselage skin, the canopy skin is below. The gap is maintained with small aluminium spacers.



Here everything is put back again on the fuse. To get there needed both skins to be installed and unistalled a few times. There is still some work to be done before this part is finished.