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...

Preparing Rib Clips The first thing I did today was start to get the rib clips prepared for installation per section 241 of the manual. It provides some restrictions about where the holes are supp...

Today was a short session working on the plane. I got a cold and an ear infection (fortunately not COVID) about a week and a half ago and was still not feeling 100% so I decided to take it easy. Th...

Craig came by once again today to help me finish installing the center aileron hanger. This part doesn’t seem tricky since there are just 4 more holes in the bracket to match drill and rivet; howev...

Another friend, Alex, came by today to help me with the rest of the outboard aileron false spar installation. This was a pretty straightforward repeat of the inner portion that just required some c...