Completed wing rib prep - 8 Hours

Another stellar day on the project, I fluted all of the wing ribs. The leading edge and tank ribs where a tad tricky, but the wing ribs themselves were pretty easy. The only ribs that I didn't flute was the W-708 ribs. I will need to locate the holes in the ribs in order to find the proper area to flute.


Once the fluting was done, I grabbed the dremel tool and finished deburring the nooks and crannies of the wing ribs. I used a 1" square cut from Maroon Scotchbrite and screwed it to the mandrel on the dremel. Worked like a charm!

After that was done, I ran over to Home Depot and picked up a few supplies to build the wing cradle.

Figuring out Wing wiring

Now to figure out the holes to make in all the wing ribs. I have been researching this for a while and I have a pretty good idea of what I need to do, but I think I'm going to post on Van's Airforce just to make sure that what I plan will work just fine.

Here's what I plan to have:

Left Wing - AerosunVX Landing Lights and Pulsar Nav Lights, Dynon Heated AOA Pitot, Wingtip NAV antenna, Vans Stall warning.

Right Wing - AerosunVX Landing Lights and Pulsar Nav Lights, Dynon Autopilot Servo.






 

Revision #2 updates:

Moved pitot heat, autopilot, stall warning to 3/4" Conduits. Opens up the original 7/16" holes for potential NAV/Comm antenna's (or other wiring i.e. Remote Magnetometer)