Second day of fuselage riveting. We managed to finish the right side, both armrests and all the internal rivets. We have begun the riveting of the belly skins, we still have around 150 rivets to buck before flipping the canoe. This shoud happen tomorrow afternoon.
On the photo, the universal head rivets joining the lateral skin to one of the seat ribs. The upper line gave us some headache with a few rivets to drill out and buck again. The rivets will be hidden once the wings are on.

My dad being here for a few days, we begun riveting the fuselage. The rivet callout on the forward part is always a bit on the short side, so we had to drill out a few.



Here is the left fuselage (still being uspside down)). The rivet line at the lower part will be riveted much later with the top skins.



There are also a few rivets to squeeze on the stiffeners in the forward part of the fuselage.



All the rivets cannot be squeezed, here is one I could not reach, I'll have to buck it next time.

Today I filished preparing the forward fuselage for riveting. First the firewall is bolted to the lower longeron.



Then all the skins and stiffeners are clecoed in place. I also noted the rivet type on the skins near the holes to avoid having to look at the plans to often. Riveting should begin on monday.

Today I tackled the assembly of the seat backs and seat floors. First I put rivets to nowhere in the holes I had wrongly drilled in the floors. Then I riveted the hinges and angles to the seat backs. For the rivets that could not be squeezed, I used the gun mounted in the C-frame.



Here is the seatback with the floor, the seat is in the middle position and the hinge of the most forward position is visible.



Here is the small flap in the back of the seatback that will slide in one of the two slots on the seat bulkhead.

Before sanding and priming the floors, I made some parts that will be used to install aileron pushrod boots. Those boots will stop cold air from the wings coming into the cabin.
On the upper part of the photo, the parts I fabricated yesterday and one of the stick boots and on the lower part, those I fabricated today with one of the aileron pushrod boots I received with my interiors.