Monday, January 31, 2022

Right Wing - Rear Spar Assembly

I think my posts are going to get a little boring for the next few months since I'm repeating the exact same build steps as on the last wing.  I definitely wish I could have built both wings at the same time.  While the actual build steps are slightly faster the second time around, it's been long enough since I did the work on the left wing that I have to revisit all of the head scratching areas to ensure I understand things like which rivets to leave out until later on in the assembly.  It would have been faster had I been able to do both left and right assemblies each time I spent the 15 minutes figuring something out.  That being said, even a few days is enough time to not remember details like that, so it may not have mattered in the end.

Tonight I finished assembly of the rear spar (after I read and re-read the plans to remember which rivets to leave out - at least I did have the other built wing assembly to reference, which did help jog my memory).


With this done, tomorrow I'll get the right front spar out and start setting up and drilling ribs.  Once that is done I'll need another semi-warm day to spray primer on the ribs so I can get spar up on the wing jig.