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Top Wing Skins

Today a started fitting the top wing skins. I started by cutting the wing walk stiffener to size with a pair of snips. The build manual...

Primer Clean-up

I put most of the ribs on the shelf and cleaned the garage up. I have the main parts for the left wing skeleton out and ready to go

Primer

I was able to set-up to spray primer on all of the rib parts. I laid as many ribs out on my screen as I could, and hung the rest from a...

Finished Straightening

Peter helped me finish straightening the wing ribs today. I stacked them up on the shelves to get them out of the way for now. I also...

Still straightening

I worked through the rest of the leading edge ribs. The tank ribs are off on the shelf since they won't get primed. There were a couple...

Straightening

I worked through a stack of ribs, straightening them first with the fluting pliers, then squaring the flanges, and then straightening...

Done Deburring Ribs!

I finally finished up de-burring all of the wing ribs. Now I can move on to fluting to straighten the ribs and squaring up the flanges....

Deburring is Fun!

Still working through the leading edge and tank ribs. All of the holes are done, as well as all of the edge breaks. I am working...

Still De-Burring

I finished de-burring the main ribs today, and have moved those onto the shelves to start on the leading edge and tank ribs. I am going...

More De-burring

After getting back from IL, its back to work de-burring wing ribs. I am about 2/3rds of the way through the main ribs, but have not...

Rib Deburring

I started deburring the wing ribs today. I started by clearing all of the nose ribs off of the workbench so I had a little more room to...

Rear Spar Riveting

I got some time to rivet the rear spars together today. I almost missed dimpling the trailing edge holes near the thick stiffeners. ...

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