Fuse Side Skins 29-16-9 to 29-17-3
Final assembly and riveting of the fuse side skins began with backriveting the baggage floor angles and door shims to the mid fuse skins. Backriveting the baggage floor angle to the right mid fuse skin Shop heads formed well, and this skin is ready to be clecoed to the understructure Backriveting the baggage floor angle and shims to the left mid fuse skin. The aft most 7 holes do not get riveted at this time I then started clecoing the four fuselage skins to the understructure, starting with the mid skins and then the forward skins, making sure that the skins butt up against eachother over the center section bulkheads. I also put a bead of 3M Fire Barrier silicone sealant along the rivet line of the forward skins that attaches to the firewall as I had done for the bottom skin. Bead of silicone sealant added prior to clecoing the skin to the firewall. After clecoing, the excess sealant was smoothed out with popsicle sticks to ensure that any gaps between the firewall flange and ski...