Wing tiedowns are mounted. These pieces took a bit. Between past fabrication, and then priming, assembly, and attaching–I’m like a week deep on these. Next up is rear spars, and those should be exciting.

After the spar was working on the wing tiedown hardware. Among the first things to do was to fabricate some spacers. The 1″ holes proved difficult to drill, and took a few trips to different hardware stores. The HF circle cutter is useless. Two different hole saws wouldn’t provide the clean cuts I wanted. Finally, […]

Commence the construction. We’re building! First thing is to add a number of nutplates to the spar for fuel tank attachment points. That number is big; I believe there are over a hundred nut plates here if memory serves. Two countersink sizes (-3 rivet, and #8 screw), so having two countersink cages has again paid […]

The inventory continues, now with the small hardware bits. This whole process has all been pretty fun. There are items I can’t wait to get to work with. There are also some that have me concerned. The amount and size of ribs is a bit staggering. I should have the parts all put away today. […]

Inventory continues as does creating the wing stand and cradle (final steps). All parts are packaged nice, the difficulty is finding room in the messy garage. I will soon be able to gut the garage, clean up scrap wood, and get the pieces on the shelf…

The wings arrived and were loaded in the garage last Wednesday. Work was finished up on the garage (mostly…) and the garage was cleaned up and organized and the unloading/inventory began. Inventory took until midday Saturday, with only a few discrepancies found awaiting a response from Vans—all very simple and none would affect my ability […]