This section was probably the most demanding yet. It consisted of riveting over 1800 rivets on the bottom skin as it is attached to the wing. It also consisted of contorting my body in weird positions in order to reach behind the skin to gain access to the underlying structure while riveting. Unfortunately I took very few pictures of the process because my hands were literally full.

The first parts involved riveting the flap and aileron fairings to the rear part of the rear spar.

Then it was off to prep the wing skins. The outboard wing skin was about 6 feet long, and it was very unwieldy to handle. 1800 rivet holes were then dimpled with each one being a loud hammer strike.

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The magnetometer mount, to be installed inside the left wing, was riveted and assembled. This fits just inside the bottom skin, and the magentometer (a glass cockpit replacement for a compass), is slid into the rails on either side of the mount. This mount is just above the access hole bottom center two photos down.

Words cannot describe the effort it took in doing all these skin rivets.

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After a lot of sweat and a sore back, both skins are now installed.