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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...

End of wing top skins

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...

Wing Top Skin

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...

More wing prep

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...

Leading Edge Riveting

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...

Wing Skins Primed

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...

Finished dimpling the wing skins

I finished dimpling all of the wing skins today. I scuffed the areas I am priming before dimpling, which makes it easier to scuff....

Dimpling

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...

Wing Skin Prep Continued

I continued to deburr the wing skins today. Same as story as it has been before. Just slowly working through them.

Leading Edge Work

I finished deburring the leading edge today, not much more though.

More wing Skin prep

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...

Wing Skins

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...

Closing Tank

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...

More tank fitting

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...

More tank work

I fit the tank ribs to the skin. These had all been prepped on the last tank.

More Right Wing Skin and Leading Edge

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....

Wing Skins

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...

Right Wing Skeleton

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...

Right Wing Structure

I spent a little time deburring all of the wing ribs. This is ready to go back together and get riveted in place.

Moving on to wing 2

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...

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