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Fuselage April 2006 Updates April 01, 2006 Forward Fuselage Structure - 3 hrs Well today was pretty much a bust. I wanted to get in 2 good full days on the plane this weekend but I only got in 3 hours today. I got sick yesterday and I just couldn't hang. I went out to the shop several times but didn't get much done. Kim made me some good chicken soup that really helped alot. Hopefully tomorrow will be a better day. Anyway turns out I misread the plans on the 713 longeron clips. I went ahead and remade those with no problems. Next I took them landing gear template you use to mark the forward bottom skin and scanned it and rotated for the other side. Then I marked gridlines on the rivet lines and the template to match up. I cutout the gear hole in the template and matched up the gridlines and then drew the hole position. Hopefully tomorrow will be a better day and I can get some stuff done. I will start by removing the bottom skin to get room to install the different side longerons and then before I put the bottom skin back on to install the bottom longerons I will cut those holes I marked today. This website was built to document my work in compliance with the FAA requirements needed to certify my aircraft. My experiences and comments are by no means to be considered as instructions on how to build any aircraft.