Getting the lower cowl attached to the fuse before the piano hinges are attached is not a problem when the top cowl is in position if some sort of support is placed under the cowl at the rear. Then, by lifting the front of the bottom up to meet the top and connecting them together with a cleko or screw at the spinner the rear can be lifted up to meet the fuse and connected.
This will not be possible once all the hinges are riveted in place. The bottom has to be mounted first (unless I am missing something....always a possibility, if not probability). If the bottom goes on first, does this become a two, or three person activity? Someone holding the front up in it's final position while someone on the port and someone else on starboard lines up the hinges at the rear? Or, is there a trick apparatus for holding the front up or the entire lower cowl up while the rear hinges are mated? Levitation? Fork lift?
This will not be possible once all the hinges are riveted in place. The bottom has to be mounted first (unless I am missing something....always a possibility, if not probability). If the bottom goes on first, does this become a two, or three person activity? Someone holding the front up in it's final position while someone on the port and someone else on starboard lines up the hinges at the rear? Or, is there a trick apparatus for holding the front up or the entire lower cowl up while the rear hinges are mated? Levitation? Fork lift?
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