The first task today is to refabricate one of the rods of the canopy jettison mechanism. Then I reinstall the canopy frame to deal with some interferences. The forward seal support has to be filed a bit.



The fram clears the support. (The blue line is only for reference).



Then I cleco the skin and the braces. Pull everything into position and drill the braces to the skin from inside the fuselage. After drilling, the usual deburring and dimpling takes place.



Six clasps are then installed to have the braces secured.



To finish today's session, I plot the hole pattern on the rear frame splice plate. There is a tooling hole on each half frame that comes in the way of the pattern given on the plans. The big dot is the hole's position and the plan have you drill at the intersection just right, which doesn't leave enough edge distance. So I will drill two holes where the small triangles are and use one more rivet than indicated. There is no problem for the other holes.