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Fuselage March 2006 Updates March 25, 2006 More Drilling - 6 hrs I just thought I was getting close. I keep finding more holes to drill and then realize there is stuff that needs to be in there to match drill to. O well and I forgot to drill the hole for the step in the right side baggage floor rib. So I started today with removing the side skin and drilling the hole. Then I removed the corner ribs and trimmed and deburred the cutouts to fit around the step pipe. Drilled the 715 floor ribs to the side skins. I fabbed up the 704 strips and drilled those to fit along the 704 bulkhead and longeron. Next I test fit the firewall and bottom floor skin. Looks like everything fits nice so I will remove tomorrow and prepare for match drilling all of the front fuse area parts. 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.