Lindy
5/4/2006
My 25' air hoses came today from The Yard (I love that place!!), so I started off tonight by installing those, and moving the other hoses to the hose reels.
Then the build session began, with only one pic to offer tonight. I drilled the remaining holes on the bottom skins of the right wing. Then I removed all the clecos to take the bottom skins off. The top skins stay in place at this point. The leading edges were then cleco'd in place, and I worked the final rib W-408 in to the leading edge skin. Both of those were back drilled from the spar to the rear flange using a 12" #30 bit. With those holes drilled, they then get cleco'd to the spar. Then I started working on the joint plate that joins the leading edge and the fuel tank. Finally, I marked the 408 rib for fluting. No where in the plans does it say to do this, but it has to be done to get the ribs to line up for drilling. Fluted those, and called it a night.
Here's the one and only pic I took tonight.
3.0 hours