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Fuselage March 2008 Updates March 13, 2008 Misc Stuff.... - 2.0 hrs Trying to decide if its time to hang the engine or start on the canopy. It is already getting warmer so I guess I could start that next. So to get something done tonight I cut some thin strips to glue on the inside edges of the elevator tips to backup the fiberglass so the rivets will not pull thru. Next I wired up the co-pilot PTT switch and slid it on the stick. Now that the wiring is done I need to finish up the last details so that I can put the top forward skin on so if I decide to start the canopy I can cleco it in place. One of the last things is to run the parking brake cable but I will need to fabricate some kind of bracket. Well I need to think on that one so I decided to fix something I did wrong with the baggage area cover. I just drilled a hole thru the panel which if I ever needed to remove it I was going to have to unbolt the canopy slide rail. So I unbolted it to remove the panel and made a cut out around the bolt head. Bolted it back in place and reinstalled. Don't know how I missed that on the plans. I caught it looking at someone elsed plane. 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.