AUGUST 2, 2004
The longerons drilled forward of F704
One of the four attach strips between the longeron and F704.
The left longeron clamped to the firewall mount.
The forward bottom skin is now on and the outer holes are drilled into the lower firewall angle.
Van's has you put rivets into the skin/longeron holes to hold everything aligned while you drill through the steel firewall mount.
The 7 1/8 inch clecoes hold the skin to the longeron and to the firewall mount. Prior to drilling these you need to drill the skin to flange along each side of the firewall/fuselage skin.