Month: September 2013

Now that all three panels of the wing are done, the next step is to lay it out and put it together.  Had to clear off the whole building board to be able to do this.  Sticks over both ends of the table by just a little bit.  Have to admit, it’s one thing to look at the measurements on the box, but when you actually lay out the wing, man, it looks huge.

Now we install the hard points for the aileron servo horns.

Then we have one of my least favorite tasks, installing hinges.  I always seem to have issues getting these in straight.  This set isn’t perfect, but is good enough.

Next the cap strips that were installed get trimmed to length.

Then it’s back to the outer wing panels to install the servo rails for the servos.  I’m going for a simple exposed servo install here, mainly because it’s easier.  First the rails are installed.

Then some structure is built up around where the servo is going to go to give us some structure to attach the covering to.

After the shear webs, then the upper cap strips are installed.

Not entirely sure what happened, but it seems like I don’t have any pictures of a bunch of stuff between the last post and this one.  In that time, I finished up the wing panel and then did the other top wing panel, then started the center section.  Most of the center section is also done by the time I get to these photos.  If I ever locate them I’ll post them, but for now, onwards.

Here we’re cap stripping the bottom of the center section:

Then we have the front shear webs in place:

And this time around I actually remembered to do the rear shear webs at the proper time.