Category: Wings

Nav Lights Mounting Bracket (1 hr)

(It doesn’t look like I uploaded any pictures of this yet, stand by) Another hot day so I tinkered about with the nav lights, drilling the holes for the mounting bracket through the wing tip. Pretty easy stuff, put the…

Nose Skins and Wing Tips (2 hr)

Still very hot but much more of a “dry heat” so I stole a few moments this weekend to progress the wings along. First, I had a go at tightening the tip end of the o/b nose skin as it…

Inboard Nose Skin (45m)

It’s still very much too hot to be building but the wing has been taunting me for weeks so I asked Teri to help fold over the nose skin today so that it would start to look like a wing.…

Nose Skin (1hr 40)

I’m pretty much shut down for the summer but today was not that hot (99F or less) though I knew it would be very humid, so I figured I’d try and do a little bit on the wing. Now I…

Top Skin Drilling (1 hr)

Another hot and humid day, so only managed an hour but that’s one less hour to go. To start today I unclecoed the skins so that I could put the top skin l-angles inside that act as stiffeners. Next I…