Smitty's RV-9A from Van's Aircraft

RV-9A: Project Entry

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Started riveting the most aft bulkhead assemblies
Here's where I get a little confused. The instructions say to "Debur the structure and skins, dimple as required, and cleco the rear fuselage back together". Then it says to rivet the F-712 and F-711 bulkheads to the F-779 bottom skin. To me this means to cleco the whole thing together and then start riveting the rear bulkheads first, while the whole tailcone is clecoed together. This seemed to me to be pretty much impossible (or extremely difficult). I decided to take a chance and rivet the F-712 and F-711 bulkheads to the F-779 bottom skin as a separate assembly, and then cleco the whole tailcone together. Here I'm using my hand squeezer to put in the rivets on the F-712 bulkhead assembly into the F-779 bottom skin.

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