Wings – Holy Cow!

First thing today was to finally decide on a location to put my wiring conduit. I kept reading blogs and posts but then stumbled upon this:

Van’s Aircraft Wing Wiring FAQ

That took the guess work out of it, and I went with their recommendation. After punching holes in all the ribs…

All the hard work paid off today, just like I was hoping. After days (4) of deburring, straightening flanges, and fluting (the latter two not being that arduous of a task), I started to cleco together some pieces. And before I knew it, a wing!

Structure of RV-7A wing
Left wing structure

And after another thirty minutes of clecos, there were two!

Left and right experimental airplane wings.
Both wings assembled and waiting for match drilling

I did find one more rib that was formed incorrectly, or in this case, punched incorrectly. The rear spar attach holes aren’t spaced in a manner that lines up with the prepunched holes in the spar. Thinking I can just punch a new hole–we’re doing that elsewhere in the plane.

Next step is to start match drilling, something I think should only take a few hours, and then back to pieces it goes and into the primer booth.

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