Well, I could pretend that I haven’t worked on the airplane for a month because I am just recovering from Halloween, but that’s a lie. It’s just been a VERY busy month, and having build this HS before, I remembered that this was some of the tedious stuff that hasn’t been very motivating to get back into it.

However, I’m motivated now, so here goes:

First step was to cut the front spar flanges to make room for some future rib flanges. Once that is complete, we can bend the un-flanged part of the spars up (away from the workbench) by 6 degrees to help form the overall shape of the horizontal front spars.

Then, it’s bend time!

Of course I was lazy about taking pictures of the reinforcement angle trimming or bending, but it’s done. AND I pulled the rear spar down from the high shelf to start clecoing the skeleton together. For some reason, the instructions here seem different that they were on the RV-7, but I think the next step is to start clecoing on the skin the then matchdrill some of the undrilled ribs.

Lots of skin and rib work to go, but it felt good to be back in the shop, especially with a big piece of airplane sitting on the workbench.

1.0 hour today.