Aileron hinges
Here is a picture from what I was talking about last post the radius on the rear spar interferes with the end of the angle. A few...
Here is a picture from what I was talking about last post the radius on the rear spar interferes with the end of the angle. A few...
Parker wanted to play in the garage this morning, so that gave me an excuse to get a couple of small tasks done. Wrapping up the...
Special thanks to Jonathan for spending a few hours of his Saturday while were riveted the top skin on this wing I got everything prepped...
After wrapping up the leading edge riveting, we finally did a test on the fuel tank. Payton helped some more on the leading edge. we then...
Payton helped me wrap up the leading edge by getting the nut plates installed on the join plate After riveting those, we dropped it on...
After putting the kids to bed tonight, I made it out to the garage to shoot some primer. This wraps up my first quart of primer, but...
I finished dimpling all of the wing skins today. I scuffed the areas I am priming before dimpling, which makes it easier to scuff....
I got the leading edge all dimpled, and clecoed together to get all of the ribs out of the way. I still need to add the join plate, but...
I continued to deburr the wing skins today. Same as story as it has been before. Just slowly working through them.
I finished deburring the leading edge today, not much more though.
I continued working through the wing skins. I was able to finish off the top skin, as well as half the leading edge skin. I also drilled...
I started deburring the wing skins in preparation for closing them. First though, I put the tank away for now. I still need to leak...
I worked on getting the tank closed today. I got out my miscellaneous pieces that I would need to get started. I put the inspection...
I drilled the Z-brackets on the inboard end first, then removed the leading edge for the outboard end I removed the tank skin and most of...
I fit the tank ribs to the skin. These had all been prepped on the last tank.
After fitting the leading edge, I drilled and tapped the tie down I drilled all of the leading edge to size, including the join plate....
Today I fit and drilled the wing skins for the right wing. I started by cutting the piece of sheet for the doubler and clamping it to...
I fit all of the wing ribs to the main and rear spar and got ready to rivet them. Here is the skeleton all riveted This time a made a...
I spent a little time deburring all of the wing ribs. This is ready to go back together and get riveted in place.
I clecoed the bottom skins on, because that is probably the safest place for them. Plus it is that much more exciting. I also clecoed on...