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I took the skins off the left wing today and decided I was going to finalize the OAT and pitot installation as much as I could today. I drilled the hole where the original pitot tube was to be installed Read more

Between breaks at work, lunch, and then tonight I was able to get the rest of the bottom skins riveted on! I only have a few marks on my arm from trying to squeeze into really tight spaces but it Read more

I got two quadrants of the larger outboard skin riveted on today. I also got all of the rivets loaded for the section they want me to finish first before moving down towards the main spar and then moving from Read more

I spent a little bit of time today wrapping up the right inboard skin. I know one thing I am changing on the left wing is that I will remove more clecos to get to the rear spar. That was Read more

I didn’t get a ton of time as I thought this would take alot more time with two people. But I decided to try it myself and I got fairly good results. I’m not really happy with a couple of Read more

Alot of work today! The first thing I did today was I went to the storage unit and did an inventory of the seat kit that arrived a few weeks ago. They emailed me one so I could do a Read more

I got the skins out of the attic today with the help of the boys. I got the pitot tube initially drilled along the spar edge and got the side bracket drilled as well. I used the 3D printed template Read more

First, but pretty easy first steps on putting the bottom wing skins on, but took a bit of time to complete tonight. I got all of the skins deburred, dimpled, primed and riveted tonight that cover the gap between the Read more