Category: Wings

I worked at getting the left hand spar assembled. I fit the web and drilled a bunch of the pilot holes so that I could cleco the spar together.

I completed the cleanup of the final spar cap. Now on to assembling the spars.

Wow, I completed one of the upper wing spar caps. They are a a lot of work. It takes a fair bit of elbow grease to get all of the small scratches out. Tomorrow I’ll work on the last spar cap. Then I’ll be ready to work on the spars themselves.

Today I am continuing with the cleanup of the wing spars. I’m using a small half sheet sander, my sanding block and scotch brite. I completed the two lower spar caps. Next I’ll work on the upper spar caps. These I won’t be as fussy about the machined of flange. The plans allow it to be proud by up to one sixteenth so I’ll just focus on cleaning up the machined edges and getting rid of the scratches.

Tonight I continued on my clean up of the spar cap. I finished the work on the small 1/16 inch flange.

I worked on the left hand lower spar cap. I continued to work at removing the left over flange that had been machined off. I know this is not really required but it makes the tie down fitting fit better and looks nice.

After having my MD-RA inspection yesterday I was able to start closing up all of the components that I have made so far. Today I started with the ailerons.

I completed up drilling to #30. Now I need to deburr all of the holes. With all the holes deburred and the ailerons clecoed together I think it\’s time for my first inspection by the MD-RA.