Fitted canopy frame aft ribs
We went camping this weekend so not much happened on the plane. Getting back fairly early on Sunday I tinkered around a little bit. I crawled inside the fuselage and fitted the rear ribs of the canopy frame to the bubble. The instructions are a bit contradictory. They say to drill these ribs to the frame sides before fitting the canopy and then they say to drill them after pushing them up to the bubble. Several builders suggested waiting to drill, so that’s what I did. I’m glad I bothered to actually crawl inside. I had the two halves off-center. I shifted them over and then pushed them out to meet the bubble.
I wasn’t motivated to do much else. I flipped through the Van’s parts catalog a little bit trying to figure out what parts of the firewall forward package I need to omit.