New parts received from vans for the Panel attach flange and the F-1044C spacer. Took care of the remedial fabrication work on those then proceeded with the match drilling of the attach flanges to the upper fuse skin. A little awkward at first but was not hard. Then drilled the holes from the panel into the attach flanges. Drilled the nut plate holes and machine countersink them for oops rivets. It's too tight in the flange to dimple any of those holes. I'll just machine countersink all of the nut plate in the panel. Should come out better anyways.

Gently formed curves into the handhold reinforcements and match drilled them to the skin.

A little more countersinking nut plate holes and then section should be ready to prime.

8/29: finished up the countersinks.