Wings - 6

August 4, 2013 5 hours, total 172 hours. I spent 6.5 hours in the garage today but will only log 5 hours toward the project. Had to rearrange my working space and find a location for the finished main spars.Some place where that wouldn't get damaged, and someplace that allowed me to move around the garage freely.

Today I finished assembling the rear right and left aft spar assembly and started work on the right and left nose ribs.

First task was to complete deburring and sanding of the rear spar. This was followed by priming the area of the spar where the inboard doubler is attached and the outboard flange. I'll prime the entire spar at a later date.

 Outboard portion of the aft spar.

 Outboard section of the aft spar with flange attached,

 Another view...

 Inboard right aft spar with doubler attached and inboard flaperon hinge bracket. Final riveting will occur once aft spar assembly is attached to the aft ribs of each wing.

 And this would be the left side aft spar assembly

 Opposite or back side rear.

 Then in was time to start work on the nose ribs. These are the 14 left side ribs with protective wrap. And there are 14 right side nse ribs.

 Same ribs with potective wrap removed.

 Thirteen of the 14 aft flanges are removed from the left side nose ribs. These are marked and ready to trim.
It gets tricky here....
Five of the ribs with the aft flanges trimmed require you to trim off the upper and lower forward flanges,
The one rib that is untrimmed requires the forward upper and lower forward flanges removed.

Then it's on to the right side nose ribs...
Seven of the aft flanges are removed
Two of the seven that had the aft flanges removed require you to trim off the upper and lower forward flanges.
Four of the seven untrimmed [aft flange] nose ribs require the upper and lower forward flanges to be trimmed. Phew, make sense uh- wait till assembly, should be fun!

 Post trim...clean up required.

 All the ribs are now ready to flute. Fluting was actually the first step called out in the assembly process, but it made more sense to me to wait until all the trimming was completed. Also shown are the hinge ribs. and doubler plates....more to come...