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Fuselage March 2006 Updates March 18, 2006 Bending the Left Corner and Longeron Drilling - 8 hrs Time for another bend. Removed the sideskin and drilled the stephole. Also drilled the matching hole in the baggage rib. Then I bent the corner bend like on the other side and reclecoed the sideskin back in place. Next I clamped the skins to the longerons for match drilling. Starting at the rear I worked towards thr front clecoing every other hole. This is fairly time consuming due to the thickness of the longerons. Then repeated on the other side. All of this drilling means all of this deburring..... ouch! 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.