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 […]
Left wing skeleton build up
It’s time to start building up the left wing skeleton and I started by pilot-drilling the rib attach angles. These angles need to be drilled with 5 holes. The plans talk of building a drill template that can be used on each angle to ensure they are the same. I opted to just measure for […]
Left Wing Rib Attach Angles
Progressing on the left wing main spar, today I worked on locating and drilling the rib attach angles, particularly in the fuel tank extension doubler area. As I had previously got the wing attach angles fabricated and drilled, these were quick to get installed. Next I located and drilled the inner (of 3) spar stiffener […]
Left Wing Fuel Tank Doubler
Tonight I got to work on getting the left wing spar fuel tank doubler extension plate installed. Once again, this is for the 55 gallon fuel tank, so this doubler is the 33-inch extension doubler. I started by marking where all of the additional spar web, spacer blocks, will be located. Again, having already figured […]