SNB-W07: Wing Box
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LH Wing Assembly – Part 12
Finished riveting lower side of LH wing including aft and forward skins. Installed aileron bell crank inspection cover plate using PK screws. LH wing complete! Hours Worked: 1.33
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LH Wing Assembly – Part 11
Deburred LH flap and aileron hinge halves and clecoed into place. Clecoed top of LH forward wing skin into place then flipped wing and ratcheted lower side into place. LH root doubler clecoed into place on top. Clecoed lower side into place. Re-flipped LH wing and riveted upper aft and upper half of forward wing…
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LH Wing Assembly – Part 10
Deburred and cleaned aft lower and forward wing skins along with root doubler. Tiedown hole in lower skin up drilled to 3/4″ per plans. LH forward skin dimpled. Leveled LH rib assembly on workbench and reattached alignment angle between main and rear spars. Clecoed aft lower and upper wing skins to LH rub assembly. Tiedown…
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LH Wing Assembly – Part 9
Deburred, scotchbrited, and cleaned upper wing skin with acetone. Hours Worked: 1.20
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LH Wing Assembly – Part 8
Last two rows of rivets on lower side of forward skin up drilled. LH forward and aft upper wing skins removed to final drill aileron bell crank support holes and tie down bolt hole. Finally, lower aft skin removed from wing rib assembly Hours Worked: 1.37
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LH Wing Assembly – Part 7
Up drilled top side of LH wing and most of bottom side. Yet to up drill forward two most rows of rivets on lower forward skin Hours Worked: 5.15
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LH Wing Assembly – Part 6
Trimmed LH wing tip tail end where it attaches to rear spar and notched top edge for main spar. Trimmed a 1/2″ channel in the bottom edge of the wing tip to accommodate rib flanges pointing outwards. Wing tip pilot drilled to wing skins. Hours Worked: 0.82
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LH Wing Assembly – Part 5
Created W05-02 and W03-02 hinge halves from M3 piano hinge and pilot drilled/clecoed to LH wing. LH doubler clecoed onto wing and holes for root rib drilled into wing skins. Forward most row of lower forward skin holes pilot drilled and clecoed into place. Hours Worked: 2.49
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LH Wing Assembly – Part 4
Pilot drilled and clecoed bottom side of forward wing skin to LH wing. Forward-most row of holes to go Hours Worked: 1.92
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LH Wing Assembly – Part 3
LH forward wing skin (top side) clecoed onto main spar and upper side pilot drilled into place Hours Worked: 2.08
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LH Wing Assembly – Part 2
Finished pilot drilling upper aft wing skin to wing rib assembly including main spar row. Flipped wing over, re-leveled, and fit/pilot drilled lower wing skin to rib assembly. Aileron bell crank supports drilled and clecoed into upper aft skin. Hours Worked: 5.38
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LH Wing Assembly – Part 1
Upper aft skin aligned into place. Began pilot drilling skin starting at center of rear spar and working outwards Hours Worked: 1.85