Wings

Another full day of (non)exciting work on the wing! Spent most of the morning and afternoon deburring, scuffing, and dimpling ALL the leading edge parts for both sides. The plans call for you to only final-drill the spar-to-nose rib holes as it is being installed, but I figured it might be better to do that drilling now before priming and assembly of the leading edge. Plus, we wanted to see what the nose ribs look like when attached to the wing :-)

L nose ribs clecoed to the main spar

R nose ribs clecoed to the main spar

First time we really get to see the airfoil shape of the wing!

We finished the day off by continuing with some top skin riveting. In a burst of motivation and productivity, we got ALL of the rivets that could be back-riveted done for both wings! We also installed the rivets and nutplates on the inboard side of each wing. Now all we have to do is go back over the skins with the conventional flush rivet set and bucking bar and complete the remaining ~200 or so rivets. Exciting times!

Still to-do list for top skins and leading edges:

• Finish bucking top skin rivets that could not be back-riveted.
• Deburr and dimple the leading edge skins
• Prime leading edge parts and skins
• Assemble leading edges
• Install leading edges to wing