02/03/14 - Left Wing Final Assembly 3
Final riveting of the left wing. Funny side note: When you set a pull rivet the stem comes off and you have to make sure it comes out of the rivet gun. When doing a wing skin there are lots and lots of rivets. So we would set one, tilt the rivet gun, the stem will …
02/02/14 - Left Wing Final Assembly 2
Left front wing skin Return To Left Wing Assembly
02/01/14 - Left Wing Final Assembly 1
February 1, 2014 Assembling the left wing ribs to spar, and bottom skin Return To Left Wing Assembly
01/02/14 - Left Wing Priming 2
2014_1_2 Tonight I was able to squeeze in a couple hours priming before my 9:00 call in meeting for work and another half hour or so after the meeting. I was able to finish all the major components and only noticed after I had cleaned up that I did not touch up prime the main …
01/01/14 - Left Wing Priming 1
2014_1_1 I finished all the deburring this afternoon just as Tim made it over. We spent the afternoon dimpling and by the time Tim left at about 5:00 all that was remaining was the inner areas of the skins and the fwd ribs ( I had used the squeezer to dimple the perimeters) and the …
12/30/13 - Left Wing Deburring
12/30/2013 Deburring left wing I spent the remainder of last night with mind numbing deburring of the left wing components. I would like to say I am done but I only spent a couple/three hours at it and part of the time was spent with final trimming of the root doubler. The total time I …
12/29/13 - Left Wing Root Doubler
12/29/2013 Root Doubler and up drilling I had rough cut the root doubler skin by making a mirror image of the right doubler (we are installing a wing walk on both right and left wings in hopes of finding an elegant method to modify the canopy for entry from both sides). Much of today was …
12/28/13 - Left Wing Tip
12/28/2013 The entire day was consumed with fitting and then mounting the left wing tip. I have been getting started no sooner than about 11:00 and the evening often is consumed with the dinner meal and guests (Chele’s sister and husband often but all three boys are home for Christmas break so a break for …
12/26/13 - Left Wing Landing Light
12/24/2013 After working on and off through the day with a large break for Christmas Eve dinner with the in-laws. I am about half done with the list I generated yesterday and started the landing light but was confused by the notes from the right wing landing light installation. The right light appears to be …
12/23/13 - Left Wing Forward Skin and Flap
Today, December 23rd, I was able to fit the aft root rib, ( I may have done this yesterday), remount the fwd ribs, drill the fwd skin, match drill the fwd skin and then updrill the entire lower skin area as well as mount the flap. The wing is ready to flip over and finish …