Today I marked and cut trimmed the F-775 skin to accomodate the tailwheel skin. There’s a template in the plans; I copied it, trimmed away the cutout area, taped it to the skin, and marked the skin to be removed. That’s a lot of words for a simple task…it’s probably easier just to look at the picture…

After a lot of cutting and filing, I clecoed the mount, bulkheads and skin together…

Getting that cutout right is an iterative process, as the skin curve changes a bit when a portion of the bend is removed and Vans template isn’t 100 percent accurate. Anyway, it’s done and looks good.