Thursday, July 28, 2022

Right Wing & Aileron Prep

I clecoed the leading edge to the right wing today.  Before doing that, I upsized the hole that is predrilled in the bottom side of the skin for the tiedown location.  After doing that and mounting the leading edge, I realized that apparently the predrilled hole was off.  The hole I had drilled with the unibit was off-center by a significant amount. It's an irritation for sure, but thankfully I was able to make the hole line up to the tiedown bracket well enough by increasing the diameter by about 1/16".


Next step was to start on the stiffeners for the ailerons.  There are a lot of these things!  I'm going to build both ailerons at the same time - things seem to go a lot faster this way.  Since I've fabricated stiffeners before. this time it went much, much faster.  When I did it before, I was very exacting about marking and cutting the stiffeners to exact sizes.  It turns out that exact dimensions for these really don't really matter.


After quite a while behind the bandsaw, belt sander, and scotch brite wheel, I had all of the stiffeners done.