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Drilling rear spar to wing ribs – Left wing

November 1, 2021 by admin Leave a Comment

Progressing with building up the left wing skeleton, the plan for today is to drill the rear spar to the wing ribs here on the left wing. To start I have the rear spar clamped in place to the inboard and outboard wing ribs. On the inboard side I made a straight edge to give […]

Left wing nose rib installation (pt.3)

October 4, 2021 by admin Leave a Comment

In the last build session I was able to get the tip rib match drilled and mounted on the spar. Today I’m proceeding with finishing up the nose rib installation. With the tip rib installed, I was able to use a piece of 3/16″ threaded rod to help me hold the nose ribs in place. […]

Left wing nose rib installation (pt.2)

October 1, 2021 by admin Leave a Comment

Today I’m continuing with the installation of the left wing nose ribs. This began with locating and drilling the rib attach angle to the spar as shown below for the W-4081-L rib. In the picture below, I temporarily have the rib set in place. I’ll have to come back later to trim the flange so […]

Left wing nose rib installation (pt.1)

September 24, 2021 by admin Leave a Comment

Carrying on with building up the left wing skeleton, today I am going to start working on placement of the outboard 3 ribs and their associated nose ribs. Starting with the tip rib, I clamped some scrap strips of aluminum to the tip rib and nose rib to help hold them in place, and to […]

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