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<\/a><\/p>\nWe departed Nashua with a Bonanza. \u00a0You’ll see it in the panorama below, just above and in front of the right wingtip…<\/p>\n
Mount Monadnock was in the way…<\/p>\n …but fortunately the RV-8 is pretty maneuverable.<\/p>\n The weather at KEEN was good but deteriorating…there were snow showers moving in from the southwest. The ceiling had come down a bit by the time we left, but we had no problems getting some. All in all, a great flight and I got to log some back-seat stick time in Bob’s RV-8.<\/p>\n Once back at Nashua, we started on more RV fun. Once again I wedged my not-petite frame into the tailcone to back-rivet the ELT antenna doubler…<\/p>\n …while Bob managed the back-rivet set on the outside. Then we moved onto riveting two heavy angles to the rear cockpit bulkhead. I didn’t get any pictures of those parts, so you’ll just have to imagine us working on them.<\/p>\n We then clecoed the canopy side rails in place and riveted them to the fuselage longerons. Here’s Bob expertly clecoing the rails…<\/p>\n These rivets weren’t particularly hard to set, but there were a few that took a little extra time and the use of a very narrow bucking bar.<\/p>\n So…between flying, breakfast and good progress on the fuselage, it was a great RV day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today was a great day, for many reasons. First, I was invited on a dawn patrol breakfast flight with Bob DiMeo, my EAA Technical Counselor, and a group of pilots from eastern\/central Massachusetts and New Hampshire. The Dawn Patrol was … Continue reading <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>But in the end, the side rails look good on the fuselage.<\/p>\n<\/a>The seam between the forward and center rails came out well, which means that all the work I did bending the longerons really paid off.<\/p>\n