2004 Flight from KKLS

2004 Flight from KKLS
This photo is from when I was flying the airplane out of Longview, WA. This was taken early in the morning..

RV-6 #25188 in flight

RV-6 #25188 in flight
Doug Eves sent this photo of the Ol' girl in flight. Taken from the ground, this is a great shot. You can see he is "relaxing" in his office in the sky...

Friday, June 19, 2009

Riveting the wing skeleton together

I have primed all the wing parts and proceeded to rivet the pieces together. It took several days and batches of parts to get everything primed. I used PPG DP40 epoxy primer on all the wing parts. It seems to be pretty durable stuff, but we'll see how it holds up to drilling and dimpling. I have also install the wing tie down brackets and the bellcrank rib. I am not going to rivet the 4 root ribs as they are too close together. When you get your top/bottom skins drilled on and ready to rivet on then you place each rib in one at a time and rivet your way out of the wing. It's easier to get all all the rib flanges. Learned this the hard way trying to rivet in between each rib during bottom skin assembly on the last two airplanes. It's a bunch of gymnastic manuevers to try and get it with all the ribs in there. When I get the wing jig it will be time to mount the spar in there and get going on the leading edge skin.

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