Happy Christmas!!! My Christmas present to myself was the installation of the bottom skin, it is starting to look like a wing! To get to that point we had to finish opening all the remaining holes to their final A4…
Nose skins and traling edge (3hr 30m)
Started out today by drilling through the pilot holes in the top skin into the spar. This allowed us to cleco the nose skins in place on the spar. and then drill all the holes in the ribs and nose…
Bottom Skin Preparation (3hr)
Another day, and a fresh pair of eyes on the aligning skin problem. To cut a long story short, I found that the rear rib at station 2 was twisted against the rear channel making the hole spacing at that…
Reinstalling the Rear Angle (1hr 30m)
If we revisit the finished skeleton and take a look at the rear angle on the rear channel which you can see on top of the channel to the right of the strut support, it didn’t seem right to me…
Day 71: Wing Skeleton Completion (4hr 15m)
The wing skeleton has a rear channel that is made up of two channels that get joined in the middle together with the strut attach bracket. A angle bracket is then attached to one of the channels (I forget which…
Day 70: Wing Ribs and Tiedown Hook (3hr)
The big news is that my Dad is in town for the rest of this year and although he initially appeared hesitant to get involved on the project, once he saw what was needed he seemed very much into it.…