Sunday, December 17, 2006


A lot of work went on between the last picture and this one. The leading edge skins were assembled and the leading edge ribs riveted inside. The whole assembly was placed on top of the wing. The ribs were riveted to the forward spar and then the skins were flush riveted to the spar. The lower skins have now been mounted ready to be riveted. At this point, you have reached the last page of the wing assebly manual....a few hundred rivets will finish the wing for now. I can easily finish it in a weekend if I can find a riveting partner...with Gregs help, I accomplished in 2 months what it took the better part of a year to do on the other wing.

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Now everything has been corosion proofed...time to start putting it all back together again.

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The wing skins layed out ready for alodine.

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Time for some real fun...acetone is used to remove Sharpie ink...the bottle with the blue label contains DX533 aluminum cleaner...the DX501 Alodine...and finally the two part primer DEFT.

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Another view of the relationship of these pulleys and the bell crank.

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Anoter set of pulleys is show here projecting to the left and the aileron bell crank is at the top of the picture.

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In the middle of the spar, one set of pulleys have been mounted that will route control cables to the ailerons.

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And at the far end of the aft spar, the aileron hinges have been mounted.

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Before the wing all goes back together again, there's a little more work to do. Here, the flap tracks are mounted to the aft spar.

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