Leading Edges assembled

December 26, 2010 – I hope you had a Merry Christmas. After the festivities, I had some help riveting the rest of the right leading edge. Earl Routh was visiting for Christmas, and he and I went out at about 8:00 to do the rivets in the very front of the assembly. We ended up finishing.

He then clecoed the leading edge to the wing spar, and we clecoed the inboard rib and splice strap in place in preparation for the fuel tank assembly.

Before I start the fuel tanks, I want to remake the doubler for the stall warning access panel. I removed the doubler yesterday, and I’m going to make a new one out of .040″ instead of the provided .025″ material. I don’t like the idea of dimpling the nutplates, and this material is really too thin to countersink for those attach rivets, so with the thicker material I can countersink to my heart’s content.

Time: 4:25