Got started on the task of riveting the top skin on the tailcone. I knew this would mean getting inside the cone and was kinda putting it off. I moved the cone to the floor and set up a fan blowing right into it. It wasn't too bad getting in there.

Once again the wife was a huge help working the big bucking bar while I back-riveted from the inside. With me stuck in the cone she helped with a few new tasks like confirming the line pressure on the air compressor and verifying rivet sizes in the plans.

We finished the longitudinal stiffeners in our first session. Will come back for bulkheads and longerons.

7/11: got the bulkheads and most of the left side longerons done. These all came out really well with the wife on the gun and me on bucking bar inside the cone. She's becoming quite the riveter. Will be very helpful going forward.

There is a little bit of faceting of the kin around the aft most bulkhead similar to what the manual describes on the stabilizer ribs. This are will be covered with a fairing so I'm not concerned but a good point to remember going forward - need to shape the tabs on all curved bulkheads and ribs to avoid this.