Decisions, decisions. Decided to permanently mount the wing center section in the fuselage and not make it removeable. To be removeable the whole area above the wing would have to be made into a hatch. It just did not look like there was enough structure remaining in the fuselage to have good fuselage integrity. Did make a smaller hatch much higher up the side, so I used two spruce stringers running over the top of the wing before the hatch to give it more strength. I will leave the area where the wing goes through open until I get the rest of the stringers and the skin applied. I don’t like skinning too soon without laying out all the equipment, air lines, air tank and electric wiring inside.
Stringing the bottom of the fuselage will take it out of the jig so I will have to apply some skin to keep it straight and true. Most likely won’t get back to working on the bird until next week, maybe sometime on Saturday.
