Jur's RV7 Aircraft Factory
2917 hours and counting
Some decisions in life are bare of any obvious logic

Countersunk the plexi and the inner skirt brace holes and later enlarged the plexi holes to 5/32"

Finished drilling of the skirt brace drilling to the side skirt. You need some help doing this as someone needs to push the side skirt against the brace.
I actually inversed the drilling direction. Vans tells you to make pilot holes on the sikirt and drill into the brace tabs. I found it easier to make the pilot holes in the center of the tabs and drill through the skirt from the inside. It worked out well.

To hold and cleco from the outside, my son Matthias gave me a hand.

As I saw the picture later, it reminded me of a picture I shot in the very beginning 13 years ago when I finished installing the workbench in my old workshop.
Look at the shelves... yes, that's the same kid. He's turned 18 now... a reminder to self again to hurry up building and that time flies quickly.

Skirt brace drilled to the frame with #40 pilot holes.

Then enlarged them to #30. It's safer to drill pilot holes first through the aluminum brace in the steel frame as you may see some wandering holes with the slightest misalignment of the drill.
Being able to enlarge the hole later to #30 using a reamer solves that problem.

Finishing off the passenger side skirt. By dimpling and countersinking the parts on the side skin brace.

Skirt clecoed and installed. Front side bottom trimmed back to provide room for the canopy deck.

View from the front. Alignment with the windscreen is similar as on the pilot side. There will be some epoxy work here.

Trimmed the notch in the back of the side skirt to align with the top fuselage skin.

View from the bck looking forward.

 Another shot of the front. There will be some patching work here to get a good seal.