Completed longerons, Began fuselage assembly
It took me half of another day to finish up the second longeron. More of the same. Yes, the second one went a little faster, no surprise. None the less, I was able to hang them both up, out of the way and completed, after another three or four hours of work.
The F-721 aft canopy decks that are match drilled to the longerons require some very specific trimming (modification) depending on which canopy type you are building. The sections to be removed are clearly described on the plans so I marked those up and cut them out mostly on the band saw.
When I cut the longerons to length, I also cut the four j-stringers that go in the aft fuselage. Now it was time to prep the ends so they fit to the bulkheads. The instructions only explicitly tell you to trim one end of one set of stringers. You find out later, after clecoing much of the rear fuselage together that most ends of most stringers need to be trimmed. So here is where we see something that actually looks like an airplane fuselage come together. This was a very exciting (and easy) step putting something big together.
