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Fuselage July 2006 Updates July 19, 2006 More Riveting.... - 3.0 hrs Jon came over to help again tonight. Great progress. We got the rest of the hard to reach rivets from last night first. Then the second row on the bottom forward floor skin. I used 4 cherry rivets like Dan suggests in the place of the rivets that don't give you enough room due to the angle brackets for the floor stiffeners. Next we did the right side baggage area and the seam where the overlap of the baggage area to the tailcone is. It was getting late so we did the overlap on the other side baggage area. When Jon left I noticed a section along the longeron in the cabin area that I could do using the pnuematic squeezer. 23 rivets on each side so I knocked those out. Should be able to have a canoe by the weekend for sure now. 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.