Well today Dad and I woke up bright and early and decided to head over to the airport to get some breakfast, after an egg sandwich and a couple cups of coffee we headed on over to visit our friends Jack and Dick. They were at their hangar working on Dwayne's airplane and we got to fill our heads with some more good ideas, it's great being surrounded by RV people!
I only had a limited time at the airport this morning because I had to go to school, and wouldn't you know it, when I got there my first class was cancled.. perfect! I could've put those couple of hours in to working on the project! Oh well, I went to my moms for a while and took care of a few things at her house.
After school I made a B-line straight for the airport to meet up with Dad at the hangar. When I got there he had already been deburring the wing ribs and had primed the rear spar, awesome! With this finished we made sure to get straight to riveting the doublers to the rear spar. We attempted to use the pneumatic squeezer that our friend let us borrow, but we couldn't get it to squeeze the -4 rivets. We shimmed up the rivet sets and cranked up the pressure on the compressor but it still wasn't doing it's job. Instead we hooked up the rivet gun and bucked all of the rivets, definitely good practice for when the skins come. We taped off the holes in the rear spar that also get ribs and the flap brace so we don't accidently fill them early.
Once we had the rear spar components all riveted together we moved back to rib preparation. We already had 14 of the leading edge ribs done (fuel tank ribs) and moved on to the wing leading edge ribs. After about a couple of hours of work we had finished flanging and fluting the leading edge ribs, and once this was done we marked the rest of the ribs to get them ready for flanging and fluting.
All in all we had a great day and it was definitely productive. With two of us working together on this we feel like we have a pretty good pace going. Can't wait to get back to the hangar!
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