Yesterday, rereading the plans I noticed that I had made a gross mistake in drilling the leading edge rins to the main spar. Some main ribs and leading edge ribs need to be redrilled. But the leading edge rib is sitting on the other side of the spar than the main ribs, and I drilled all the same way. On the picture, the spar has six holes and the rib flange only four. it should be the other way round, I should have used the spar as a drill guide and not the rib!!!!!!



I sent the picture to Van's, I think I will have six rivets on the flange instead of four.

Today first assembly of the skeleton. Main and rear spar assembled with the main ribs, and leading edge ribs assembled to the main spar. Everything then gets drilled in assembly.



All the parts are then deburred and all the rear spar parts get sanded. All is ready for a priming session.



To end the day, beginning of the assembly of the wing support, pictures tomorrow.

Today I have redone the parts that were misdrilled last week, I'm still not satisfied with the new parts. I'll make complete new ones: spacer and tie-down support.

Drilling of doublers for the rear spar. The middle doubler needs an odd looking hole for the aileron connecting rod. The hole is first drilled then sanded to shape with a small grinder.



The all the parts got deburred and part of the spar flange got dimpled. It's not possible to dimple this part of the flange once the doubler in riveted. (see picture)

Built a cradle to help assembling the leading edges and fuel tanks.