Wing Kit

Drilling The Leading Edge

 

07/19/04, 2.0 hrs

 

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.

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):

http://homepage.mac.com/tamoell/airplane/wings/wings04_12_04.htm

 

       


Last Updated: July 20, 2004