Wings, flaps mounting underway

Despite having to drive down to Sarasota today to visit my mother-in-law, I had to get something useful done on the project this morning before leaving. So…I mounted the left flap.

While that might not seem like much, it means that the left wing is now ready to temporarily mount on the fuselage. I’m aiming for late afternoon tomorrow, once some assistants become available. Standby…

Right flap now mounted to its wing which, itself, is ready to temporarily mount on the fuselage.

Unfortunately, I don’t have the space (despite having a 3-car garage dedicated to the project) to mount both wings simultaneously, so it’ll be one at a time with any remaining tweaks to be done at the hangar during final assembly sometime this fall.

Wings, flaps progress

Right flap bottom skin fitting for riveting.

Right flap bottom skin riveted to spar.

Right flap awaiting trailing edge installation.

Right flap trailing edge clecoed in place and ribs ready to be riveted to bottom skin.

Right flap trailing edge ready for riveting.

Right flap completed and ready to head into the house for the duration.

Wings, flaps assembly

Right flap disassembly in progress…

Right flap component priming…

Right flap nose and top skin clecoed to structure for riveting.

Right flap nose and top skin clecoed to structure for riveting.

Right flap nose and top skin clecoed to structure for riveting.

Wings, flaps, spar

Left flap weighted while trailing edge temporary adhesive sets.

Left flap trailing edge rivets top half set. They’re done double-flush, so one half at a time.

Bronze bushings pressed into left wing flap hinge brackets.

Left flap complete. Ready to go into the house for the duration.

Right wing main spar now in the garage awaiting its turn…