The installation of the support angle on the fuselage requires some thinking to take the measurments. Here is my setup. Once everything is clamped, the drilling is done in incremental steps to 1/4".



After the frame is installed, the upper brace is clecoed in position and all the drilling is done.



After a last height adjustement of the frame (my cut last time was a bit shy), I drilled the frame to the support angle. I still have to drill the inner holes and countersink where it is needed.

Today I'm still assembling the canopy frame, first by clamping and drilling the two forward halves.



Then the two angles fabricated two days ago have to be installed, the plans are rather vague about the positionning. First the outside part of the frame is trimmed to allow the big angle to sit flush, then the two angles are drilled together to allow two small keeper rivets to be bucked. Those rivets are not structural.



Here the picture after the drilling with the clecos.



And now the angles have to be installed on the fuselage, on the seats bulkhead. It will be done next time as the measurment on the plan is quasi impossible to make on the fuselage.

More work on the cabin frame. First some angles have to be cut and drilled. Some are looking akward because the frame is not sitting at a right angle on the upper fuselage longerons.



The two halves of the rear of the frame are the clamped on a board so that the assembly stays flat. One can make out the dimensions drawn on the board. The width is within 1/32 of Vans' dimensions on the plan.



The two halves are then joined with one of the plates fabricated previously.



Then two strips have to be drilled, they will allow later to then install the forward part of the frame. Here the inner strip is drilled.



Here the two strips are drilled, they are not drilled two full size, it will be done on the bench.



Here the two forward parts are positionned on the assembly. All the operations done today on the rear parts will have to be done on the forward parts.

I installed the fuel selector; its an Andair selector looking more robust and safer than the one supplied by Vans.



Then I begun working on the rollbar. The part is quite complex and there are four rollbar quarts to be assembled. The two rear parts have to be drilled to 1 1/2 inches.



Then two liaising parts have to be fabricated and drilled. I still have some angles to cut and drill before beginning the assembly.

The engine is not ordered yet but I know it will be a 180hp fuel injected Lycoming or look alike. The choice being made I ordered the firewall forward kit from Vans. The kit includes most of the parts needed: tubings, alternator, controls....