Chapter 5 – Fuselage Sides

Learning from the pain it took to remove the half-dozen individual pieces of peel ply from the right fuselage side taught me to make the process easy by just peel-plying the left fuselage side lay-up with one huge piece of peel ply!  Here I’m removing that one big piece of peel ply.  I’ve already mounted the top longeron with flox to the fuselage side, and the lower triangular stringer is cut and teed up for mounting as well (thus the reason I’m removing the peel ply at this point).  With no control stick depression on the left fuselage side, and having glassed one side already, the left side went significantly faster than the right.Left fuselage side peel ply removal

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