Wings

Not really much in the way of "direct" progress on the wings this weekend through today. I did build the wing rack using plans I found online, and the leading edge cradles. Since both Sarah and I are working on the wings in parallel, I thought it might be nice to make four total cradles, so that we can work on the leading edges and tanks all at the same time. I'm thinking we can start on the tanks first, since there are many stages of proseal curing time, during which we can continue on the other parts. Of course, we still need to finish the ribs, rear spar, and top skins before we get to that!! Maybe our excitement is causing us to get a little ahead of ourselves...

We also cleaned out the garage on Saturday, taking two truckloads of crap to the landfill. It's nice to have a little more breathing room in here now, although honestly I think we could still stand to organize things even more. It's going to be a slow process to fully recover from the chaos of this past year.

Oh yeah, one other milestone today... we ordered the fuselage kit!!! A little bird had told me Van's will be increasing their kit prices "soon", so I called them today and just by chance found out they were in the middle of raising their prices right "now". So the person I spoke to was either the world's best salesperson, or just trying to do me a solid, but I squeaked my order in and got it processed before the price hike becomes official (tomorrow?). So, we might have the kit delivered a few weeks prior to needing it, but at least we got it at the cheaper price. Well, I guess I'm using the word "cheap" lightly here. Anyway, it will also be fun to gawk at all the parts that I'm really excited about in the fuse kit while we're finishing the wings.

Otherwise, the only real work we got done was I caught my L ribs up to Sarah's R ribs, they are all deburred, primed, and ready for final installation to the spars... hopefully we'll get to that tomorrow!

The L wing ribs after priming