Wings
Wings · 30. September 2023
Attached the left wing, we have to do one after the other, since she she has gotten so big, she hardly fits in our workshop anymore…
Very rewarding work, the optics with the aileron and flap on…
Wings · 15. May 2023
We noticed a missing rivet in the quickbuild portion of the wing. This meant removing the tank to get access, set the rivet and put the tank back on.
Wings · 09. May 2023
Finally, back to riveting. We now lost track of the rivet numbers, I am afraid, so the counter is not updated…
But it was great to work on my contortion skills, that access panel for the pitot box sure was handy on the left wing!
Wings · 02. April 2023
Almost all the wires for the wings are now installed. Lights, pitot tubes and wires, coax for the NAV antenna… especially for the coax, I did not want a connector at the wing root. And since every connector is a possible point of failure, I decided not to have any connectors at all. Hence the wire mess coming out of the wings, which will be sorted and pulled through the fuselage upon final assembly. Ask me later, if I would do it again ;-)
Wings · 24. February 2023
Mounted the control box for the heated pitot and also conduits for the many wires into the wings.
Wings · 23. February 2023
The bearing in the bracket built from the quickbuild facility had some play. Since we could not fix it, we ordered some parts and rebuilt the thing.
Wings · 08. February 2023
My dad was not happy with the bracket that garmin sells for the roll servo. Always a nice thing to have a retired aircraft mechanic improving things for future maintenance.
Wings · 21. November 2021
Fitting Aeroled wingtip lights involves cutting the wingtip and inserting a specially designed piece for the lights. Glassed that in and fitted the lens. Still some beautifying micro needed…
Wings · 05. June 2021
New wing to replace the one damaged by shipping New wing was built by Van’s due to staffing problems at the Philippine quickbuild facility Some undersized rivets found, otherwise nice work and happy to have the wing