Today, I riveted  the F-705 bulkhead together.

In the picture below, you have the F-605C bar doubler. The outboard hole is drilled for an AN3 bolt, then you have large area with no holes, then rivet and AN3 holes resume.

However, when you swing away the F-605C bar doubler, you see that there is one rivet hole that just goes through the F-705B (center section bar) and the F-705A rear spar.

The prints tell you to set a AN470AD4-6 rivet in this hole.  It is somewhat cryptic, and I am surprised I didn't miss it.

After I set the rivet, I repositioned the F-605C into position and you can see there is plenty of room between the F-705B and the F-605C.

On the F-705 bulkhead, there are several rivet holes that need to remain open at this stage of building.  I carefully reviewed the prints again and again, and put yellow tape over the holes that did not get rivets.

I am preparing the seating area and the baggage area to have fully removable floors by nutplating the floors. I am going to have items such as strobe power supplies, ELT, and wiring that I may need to get to someday.  By nutplating the floors, i won't have to drill out all the rivets to access, repair / replace those components.

Once I got the F-705 bulkhead riveted together, I started clecoing the the center fuselage together.  It felt pretty nice to have something to show for my efforst today that was a larger than ribs, angles, and nutplates.

Just another angle...  Woohoo, big deal.

Kevin Faris is supposed to come down tomorrow.  He is hopefully bringing down his metal shear to add to my fabrication tools for the project.