Today, I begun installing the sideskirts. The two aluminium skins are riveted to the siderails of the frame and will clamp the sides of the canopy. here the rear of the right skirt.



Here the forward part of the left skirt. The canopy skin will have to be adjusted. The skin will also have to be cut where the skirt is overlapping. Normally the skirt should not be overlapping, but I pulled the skirt a bit forward to try to minimize the size of the small triangle shaped opening at the bottom. It was not a good idea as some rivets will now interfere with the frame rivets. Some innovative thinking to do about this.



With everything installed, I tried opening the canopy. Without the braces and the struts, the canopy is very floppy.



To help opening the canopy I fabricated two small handles made from some aluminium angle.