I had been concerned about laying out perfectly straight edges for the bottom of the fuselage, but then I realized I have a 12″ straight-edge in the form of left over .032″ sheet.
I used it to guide the olfa knife for about 3-4 passes. Then since I am paranoid about having a nice, clean break on such a major part, I did several more passes for good measure. There was plenty of room on the sides to cut out blanks for many of the Z channel pieces. Unfortunately I keep confusing .025 and .032 parts and cutting blanks out of the wrong size aluminum. It seems like I will still have plenty of material left over.
Here is the fuselage bottom lined up with the edge of my work table.
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