I needed almost two hours to rivet the two rear bulkheads to the small skin, some rivets proved difficult to set but the end result is acceptable. This assembly is now fitted to the rear fuselage.



I need a helper to rivet the center and aft fuselage, while waiting, I will tackle the remaining tasks on the wings : installation of angle of attack hardware, light lenses, navigation lights wiring and fuel tank exterior priming. So the workshop as to reorganized, Antoine helped lift the different parts.

After three hours, I am at the same stage as last week. The parts have been deburred, dimpled, sanded and primed. I have assembled the bulkheads, and now I have to rivet them to the skin. It'll be tomorrows work.

This morning I received the parts to built a new rear part (the parts have now the value of gold when I see the express shipping fee).
The parts adapted quite well to the fuselage, still some small work to do before priming and reassembly.

The picture shows the fuselage after todays session. It looks like some progress but no. I had lots of trouble riveting the tailcone, the skin that was difficult to form was also difficult to rivet.
I thinj the skin was not correctly bent and I had to drill out a few rivets, this enlarge some holes. I think my riveting technique was not very good, the part is difficult to rivet alone.
The result is that I decided to redo the tailcone completely because this part supports the empennage.
While waiting for the parts I have enough to work on (wings to finish, seats...)

Today I begub the reassembly of the aft fuselage. This begins by riveting the aft blukhead to the small lower skin.
Here is a method I use when the skins are not joining correctly before riveting. I insert a small nylon tubing on the rivet, the tubing gets compressed during riveting and compresses the upper skin to the lower skin during this operation. Here some pictures.