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Rear entry door fabrication/rebuilding: Part I - Originally Posted Nov. 24, 2006 I actually had three people show up to help today! And they worked hard too. They got the rest of the inspection panels off and removed the passenger seats. They also took all of the windows out of the fuselage. Pretty good amount of work done for one day. I, on the other hand, didn't get squat done. There were lots of guests in the hangar today and I ended up giving lots of FIFI tours for special museum guests. All I managed to do was to start working on a hinge design for the entry door that will be on the left side of the aircraft. No, this won't be an exact duplicate of the factory B-24A door, but with our facilities here, I am limited to what I can fabricate. I will use the existing door frame to put the new entry door. It will be about four feet further aft of the original "A" model door and about twice as wide. This will certainly not please the judges at the next "B-24 Fly-In and PX Extravaganza," but it will help with the "wider" tourists who come through the airplane. The pictures below won't really help to explain what I've got in mind for this, so you'll just have to use your imagination for now. 
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