Drilling The Leading Edge
07/19/2004 Filed in: Left Wing | Leading Edge
Tonight I decided to get the leading edge together. I worked on this for about 2 hrs and only got 2 pictures. How boring. More interesting tonight was that Dan Checkoway finally updated his web site to include his experiences on their recent cross-country flying vacation. So between drilling holes and eating dinner, I had to catch up on the latest flying news. I thought maybe there for a while, he was done updating his web site.
Okay, back to building my own plane. The 2nd leading edge clecoed together with no problems. I didn't get any of the bulges on the skin I had with the right leading edge as I "adjusted" the ribs before putting the leading edge together for the first time. When I mounted the leading edge to the spar, it fit perfectly. No further notching required of the wing stand attach angles.
I clecoed this sucker together and match drilled all the holes. I used the red sharpie marking method I started using on the left wing skins so that I didn't miss any holes while moving clecoes around.
Okay, back to building my own plane. The 2nd leading edge clecoed together with no problems. I didn't get any of the bulges on the skin I had with the right leading edge as I "adjusted" the ribs before putting the leading edge together for the first time. When I mounted the leading edge to the spar, it fit perfectly. No further notching required of the wing stand attach angles.
I clecoed this sucker together and match drilled all the holes. I used the red sharpie marking method I started using on the left wing skins so that I didn't miss any holes while moving clecoes around.

Just a picture of the top side. Tonights log entry is almost not even worth the web server space.

No pictures, but I also got the leading edge to fuel tank attach plate measured out and ready to drill to the leading edge inboard rib.
I must be have learned something on the first wing. I didn't get this far for two hours worth of work on the right wing leading edge.
Right Wing Leading Edge (Detailed Log Entry)