Tuesday, March 27, 2018

Wings, Outboard Leading Edge (Part 1)

The work for this session was actually completed on Sunday, March 25th.



While the Top Wing Skins are awaiting rivets, I kept moving forward by starting Section 17-Outboard Leading Edge.  To begin with, the plans have you build cradles that will support the construction of the Outboard Leading Edges AND the Fuel Tanks.  Van’s helps you out here and traces the templates on the outside of the shipping crate that contained the Wing Kit.....all you have to do is cut them out.

They are marked “VB-11” and look like this after they are cut out from the shipping crate.

I screwed a piece of 2” x 6” to each of the cutouts for stability.

Just another angle.

Hopefully there will some Leading Edges in the cradles real soon.