Tonight I worked on installing the capstrips on the tops of ribs #1 and #3. These capstrips form the inboard and outboard sides of the fuel tank bay and have nutplates that will eventually hold scr...

Rib 5 Capstrip I borrowed the CherryMax rivet puller from Craig today so I started by finishing the capstrip on rib #5. I had already countersunk the 3 holes in the capstrip and machined tail rib ...

Rib 5 Capstrip I picked up today where I left off yesterday on section 281 of the old manual/section 312 of the new manual, installing the capstrip on rib #5. I began by drilling the final hole i...

False Rib Now that section 25 and the nose ribs were done, I decided to skip section 26 of the manual (installing the wiring) because that can be done later and I still need to make new wiring har...

Today I finished section 251 of the wing manual by installing all of the rivets connecting the nose ribs to the center ribs. I started by dimpling the last remaining hole (the one on the bottom of ...

Today my friend, Jordi, was in town from San Francisco and we had a bit of downtime so we decided to work on the plane a bit. Picking right up where I left off on section 251, we began by match dri...

Today my friend Josh came by to help me and I finished installing the nose ribs to the front spar using stainless steel rivets per section 251 of the manual. I had already installed most of the bot...

Craig and Kate came by for a little while at the beginning the day today so that I could get Craig to look at a couple of things. Together we first looked at the final rivet I needed to install for...

Today I started the installation of the machined tail rib clips for the outboard aileron hanger/machined tail rib for rib #12. The first thing I did for this step was to determine where all of the ...

Installing Aileron/Flap Hanger Clips Today I started by installing the clips on the flap/aileron hanger and #5 rib. I clamped each clip in place on the machined tail rib/hanger using long nose loc...