I finalized the wing ribs today. I decided that I would just rivet all 8 holes of the 13th and 14th rib. I looked through the instructions and didn’t see any reason that there should only be 4 of the 8 holes riveted, so I just finished them all. Hopefully Read more…
I finally got some chance to sit down and work on the plane. I’ve been researching a few items and looking on how to tackle some things. I first got the pitot static system tubing ordered. I also got an ELT (who knows why LOL. It probably won’t be installed Read more…
I got a bit of time today to get the inboard ribs completely riveted together. I now need to go down the line and rivet/bolt each rib into place on the spar web.
I got a bit of time tonight to work on the plane so I got the four W-1011 ribs rivetted to the flap hinge brackets and ribs together. I only had to redo one rivet as I wasn’t paying attention and the rib backed away from the bracket and left Read more…
I finally got some time last night to get the ribs and other components primed. I got it all put back together again so that I can start riveting soon. With Fall break and trying to finalize my MBA it might be slow go for the next couple of weeks Read more…
It’s been a long time over the past couple of weeks as I have been working on studying for my MBA and I’ve also started my commercial pilot training. I passed my CAX exam this past Friday. But over the past few weeks I’ve been spending some time here and Read more…
I got the W-1025B flap hinge ribs in today so I got them cut, deburred and then drilled all of the holes into the W-1011 ribs to match it. I also got four of the ribs completely deburred and ready for primer. The deburring will take most of the time Read more…
I had a bit of spare time tonight so I decided to finish the match drilling for the main spar and the ribs. Went pretty smoothly since all of them were already final sized it seems like. I just had to drill the #12 holes since they didn’t exist. Cailey Read more…
I’m waiting on my shipment of parts from Van’s to come in, which should be tomorrow. So I decided with a little bit of time I had yesterday to deburr the remaining brackets for the flaps. Not much work, but at least it is out of the way so when Read more…
I got all of the inboard rib work done today this Labor day. I also clecoed all of the ribs to the spar so I can match drill them tomorrow. I built the wing holder which i will modify later to have the carpet on it when the wings are Read more…