I did a lot of work over the past two days which I’m going to put into two separate posts since they are over different sections, but I’ll mention some of it here as it will be necessary to see why I did some of the other work I mention.
Later that night after I did my last post I decided to keep working. I primed the parts that I had out and then I put the aileron brackets together. They came out super straight and I was very excited they didn’t warp!
I then decided to finish getting the conduit brackets mounted since I’m still waiting on the reinforcement brackets for the rear spar. They should be in tomorrow. But here is what that worked looks like after I finished.
I then decided to mount the skins to see how they all fit up and that is when I noticed a problem. I had mounted the inboard ribs to the wrong spars. So, I drilled out the rivets on those and swapped them around. A bunch of extra work I wouldn’t have had to do if I had slowed down and made sure I had done it right.
I didn’t take a picture of this but I ran the conduit in the plane and then I started doing the pitot tubing but that is going to need some lubrication to get through as it is just a bit too tight. All in all I made some good progress!
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