Builder's Log

Left Wing: Top Skins Riveted

The top skin riveting is done! Finished up the top row/rear spar riveting, and the inboard-most rib with the nutplates.

Had a friend from work, Zack, come over for the 2-person-job of riveting the top skin. It went very well.

And that just refers to the metal work of course. Still need to install the stall detector to call the

A couple of final steps before final assembly: riveting nutplates onto the tank strip, and deburring the slot I cut

Had a couple of pieces still to prime (J-stiffener and tank strip), so did that. Then the instructions suggested if

Got the left leading edge skin all prepped. This included deburring all the holes plus deburring the edges. Then dimpling.

I was away on vacation for a couple of weekends, so no work done then. Last weekend I only got

Cleco’d in all the leading edge ribs with the J-stiffener inserted. Match drilled the J-stiffener and final size drilled the

Finished building the leading edge cradle, to be used for the outboard leading edges as well as the tanks. Edge

Took a little break due to some significant milestones at work. Those are now past, still a lot of work