All the parts are primed in the morning and in the afternoon I begin riveting the canopy skin. It's not really an easy task, access is quite difficult. Some rivets can be squeeezd, some have to be shot. On the picture, the left row is done with pop rivets except the three on the ends which will be done when the canopy is on the fuselage as there is a gap with the frame. The middle row has no rivets for now as the reinforcement braces will be riveted there. The right row will be riveted later as some shims might have to be installed.




Then I fabricate two guides out of delrin. The canopy is somewhat floppy andduring closing sometimes it's difficult to get the lug into the holes. This guides will guide the lug correctly. Here is the picture with the guide's position relative to the lug, but the guide will be bolted to the rollbar.




And here the guide in front of the rollbar, the right side will be guiding the lug into the square hole.