It has been a while since I posted an update. Many things got in the way of completing this including a vacation, a weekend away for an EAA Electrical Class, and the big winter freeze of 2021. This section also took a while simply because some of the rivets required me to climb into the back area of the fuselage which turned out to be a torture chamber due to the weird positions I had to contort my body to fit.

This entire section was mostly laying down two large sheets of aluminum in the rear area of the fuselage which will become the baggage area. Most of the floor was held in place with pop rivets which made things easy once I got to that step.

Since the baggage area consists of shiny alclad aluminum, the photos had a hard time conveying what the section looks like.

I am skipping ahead a bit because this was actually completed after Section 33. That is, I decided to paint the interior – at least the areas that might be exposed that are not covered with interior panels. Actually the floor will be covered by carpet but it was easy enough to paint at this point. And the baggage walls will eventually be covered once the company I plan to use for the interior starts to ship panels for that area.

I made sort of a paint booth in the garage, and masked off areas I did not want to paint. I decided to keep it simple and use a Satin Black spray paint. I think the results came out fairly good.

I know you are asking: what the heck am I doing painting the interior black? Well, if you see in the above picture a Kia Stinger, you will know I have a new ride. I really like the interior, and we both agree, we want to use this interior as our inspiration for colors for the interior of the airplane.

One last thing. I mentioned i went to an EAA Electrical Class. I attended in late February in Lakeland, FL. This class was over the weekend, and it covered the design of an electrical system for an experimental airplane. We also did a few projects such as wiring up a “panel”, and an intercom cable. I got so much out of the sheetmetal class that I took 2 years ago, I figure this would be well worth my time. I think it was. Stay tuned for more details on my electrical design.