>Anyone else willing to start talking about what they have accomplished on there >project?
O.K. I started on my fuselage around the first of the year. I am doing the assembly somewhat differently to see if I can do away with the "banana boat". I am building it upside down and started with both top longerons on the build table, added the doublers and then all the top stringers and gussets. Next were some simple jigs to: 1: hold the lower firewall support & compression brace in place above the table, 2: hold the lower longerons in place at "D" (the deepest point) and "H" (the widest point), and 3: hold a tail post in place. (Since I'm doing this in the living room of a second floor apartment I can't add the rear spar of the fin now; if I did, I'd never get it out the door .) Last weekend I had used some nylon cord to tie the lower longerons to the jigs and got some nice curves. I went out for a few hours and came back to find that one had broken at "D" . So, Sunday was spent scarfing a new piece on the longeron, and that end will now be used at the rear end where it's reasonably straight. I've just finished gluing the lower engine support & compression brace together at the correct angle. They will go on the jig and then I'll make up a steamer with a piece of water pipe to steam the lower longerons so that I (hopefully) won't have any more problems with them. Once they are in place, I'll add all the lower stringers/gussets and the tie the upper and lower assemblies together with all the side (vertical) stringers/gussets. I'll then add the bottom plywood skin, free it from the jigs, add the upper engine supports, etc. and add the side skins. I'll keep updating this to let everybody know how it all works out. Allen G. Wiesner KR-2SS s/n 1118, TD/CorvAir 65 Franklin Street Ansonia, CT 06401-1240 203-732-0508 "It ain't over til the fat lady sings."
