Daily Archives: January 25, 2014

  Total Build time: 330 hours. After updrilling and deburring all of the ribs, I marked blue lines on the flanges to align them later with the wing skins. My method was to use a flat table and blue sharpie with a little bit of masking tape wrapped around to shim the point to the … Continue reading »

Total build time: 325 hours. To begin the right wing substructure, I first attached the aft ribs with their spacers, then added the forward ribs. I then put the assembly on sawhorses, and clecoed the aft spar in place:   The root ribs are special, and the aft root rib in particular needs to be … Continue reading »