Finished the rudder (yes, the rudder)

Believe it or not we finished riveting the rudder this weekend.  It was one of those things that we set aside (you kind of glue the trailing edge and leave it for a while) and forgot about.  So we decided to just get it done.

Landing gear holes

Tonight we spent a couple of hours working on the forward fuselage.  We finished match drilling the firewall (including the two top steel brackets).  Finally we cut out the main landing gear holes and drilled the holes for the brake lines.

Back to work!

We returned to working on the plane today and it was a day of great visible progress.  We started off by drilling the forward skins to the longerons and then we installed the firewall and bottom skins.  After some fine tuning we were able to clamp and then drill the side and bottom skins to the firewall.  It's great to see some progress again.