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| Planning during the Big Build |
On the weekend of 10/4 and 10/5, we did a big build with lots of friends invited to help us make a push towards getting the wing ready for the load tests coming up soon at Hiller Museum.
On Saturday alone, we had 25 people working on the plane, by far the most people working in one day on the plane.
With all those people pulling together, we got a LOT done!
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| A short presentation to all the volunteers before we begin work for the day |
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| Cutting leading edge panel to size |
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| Marking a leading edge panel for cutting |
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| Planning for more panel cutting |
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| Testing airspeed impellers in a no-wind underground garage |
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| Lashings ready to epoxy |
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| Weighing down a wingtip extension while the rib glue dries with the washout in place |
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| Building the tool to align the X-bracing holes |
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| Working on the setup of the X-bracing hole alignment tool |
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| Cutting the X-bracing holes |
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| Marking the next hole to be cut |
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| Hanging the wing section after cutting the X-bracing holes |
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| Terminating the ends of lift wires |
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| Measuring and filling the 2L bottles used to weigh the wing down during load testing |
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| The mass of bottles in progress getting marked and filled |
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| Cutting 1/16" X 1/4" balsa strips to use in the fuselage fairing ribs |
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| Victory! (more strips cut) |
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| Planning to cut strips for fuselage fairing |
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| Bending leading edges |
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