The 2019 Camrose Fly-in Breakfast

I don't normally post all my flights as they are not very adventurous and kind of boring. However today is a different story. I rented C-FWTO and I took my kids out to the Camrose Fly-in breakfast. I always enjoy these as they are a family event, and I get to check out at all the RV's and also to look at some of the build examples. So I generally take lots of reference pictures.

However I really enjoyed flying with the kids and I don't do it that much.
 

Basically done riveting the aft fuse sides - 3 hours

Well, I've done as much riveting of the aft fuse that I can do by myself. The sides are all done. The only items left outstanding are the corners at each bulkhead. Those I just can't do by myself and I will need a good bucking partner to help me with that.

More riveting aft fuse sides - 2 hours

Just grinding away. Small chunks of riveting

Started riveting the aft fuse sides - 2.5 hours

Not much to report. started bucking the side skins on the aft fuselage. Much easier than the bottoms. Just mindless riveting. I tried to re-adjust the assembly to ensure level when riveting, its a bit of a losing battle cause you would get it level, drive a rivet and then it would be all off and then you would have to repeat the process.  In the end I kind of gave up on trying to get it perfect. Looks like you perfect it later when you get the longerons and aft deck skin on the assembly. I did alternate sides after every 4 rivets to help balance and keep things level as best I could.

Finished riveting the aft fuse (bottom skin) - 6 hours

I'm not loving the riveting of the aft fuse bottom skin. Skinning the wings was much easier in my opinion. One of the issues I was having is that the back rivet set would like to wander increasing the chance of a poorly set rivet. So I decided to make a rivet guide out of a piece of wood. The wood is drilled such that it allows the cleco adjacent to the rivet I want to set, the perfect distance for my back rivet set to be in the correct position. The result is that it is much easier to keep the rivet set from wandering.

Once I had the makeshift rivet guide figured out, riveting ease and success rates increased dramatically. So I just kept grinding on.

In the end, I'm extremely happy with the shop heads.

More riveting the aft fuse (bottom skin) - 2.5 hours

I putzed at riveting the Aft fuse tonight. Admittedly I am not enjoying this very much. I riveting by myself and its not very easy. I'm staring by riveting the bottom skin and then will work my way up, alternating sides as I go. The difficulty is trying to hold the gun in one hand and the bar in the other at such an awkward  position. After a bit of head scratching, I finally figured out to put the back rivet set on the gun, and use my 3"x 1" tungsten bucking bar as a backing bar. I have to admit the results are extremely good. It still feels odd and sometimes its tough to get the bar nice and tight when your arms start getting further away from your body. But at lease the adjacent cleco gives your fingers/bar something to reference to ensure proper placement.