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Entry Date: Monday, Sep 01, 2008 (details)
Finish Drilling the Skins
Assembly: Wings
Sub-Assembly:  General
Work Time: 5 hours

Completed drilling on both sides.
Aligned and drilled the nose ribs.

Entry Date: Saturday, Aug 16, 2008 (details)
Position & Drill the Upper Skin Stringer Channels
Assembly: Wings
Sub-Assembly:  General
Work Time: 1 hours

Since the channels were already in place the skins didn't have to be moved again for this step.
Re-positioned the channels with the lower skins off, supported and drilled.

Entry Date: Saturday, Aug 09, 2008 (details)
Position & Drill the Upper Hat Stiffeners
Assembly: Wings
Sub-Assembly:  General
Work Time: 4 hours

Remounted upper skins, removed lower. Repeated procedures to prepare the hat sections.
Position and drill.
Enlarge all rivet holes through spars and where the skin splices to #30.

Entry Date: Thursday, Jul 24, 2008 (details)
Position & Drill the Lower Skin Stiffener Channels
Assembly: Wings
Sub-Assembly:  General
Work Time: 1 hours

Fit the skin stringer channels underneath the lower skins.
Centered as well as possible and drilled.
(We changed the order from the manual and did this before the upper hat sections. Seemed to make sense not to waste time removing skins inbetween tasks)

Entry Date: Sunday, Jun 01, 2008 (details)
Install Hat Sections Stiffeners & Lower Wing Stiffeners
Assembly: Wings
Sub-Assembly:  General
Work Time: 5 hours

Checked each hat section for straightness. Corrected any issues.
Smoothed edges and rounded the ends on the grinder.
Marked rivet lines.
Position and drill.

Entry Date: Thursday, May 01, 2008 (details)
Position & Drill the Lower Inboard Main Skin
Assembly: Wings
Sub-Assembly:  General
Work Time: 2 hours

Same procedure as for all skins.

Entry Date: Tuesday, Nov 13, 2007 (details)
*Cough*
Assembly: Fuselage
Sub-Assembly:  General
Work Time: 0 hours

Poor, poor neglected airplane! We have abandoned it these past few months. But we promise we have a good excuse....

We're building a hangar!

(see, not too bad of an excuse eh?)

Entry Date: Friday, Jul 06, 2007 (details)
Position and Drill the Lower Outboard and Center Main Skins
Assembly: Wings
Sub-Assembly:  General
Work Time: 0.75 hours

Used the same method as attaching the upper skins and attached the lower outboard and lower center skins.

Entry Date: Sunday, Jul 01, 2007 (details)
Finish Drilling the Upper Main Skins
Assembly: Wings
Sub-Assembly:  General
Work Time: 7.5 hours

Attached all upper skins and rechecked the alignment.
Drilled all rivet holes: spars and ribs, forward spar flanges, main ribs, aft spar, and finally the flap and aileron cove ribs.

Entry Date: Thursday, Jun 14, 2007 (details)
Mark and Trim the Leading Edge Skins
Assembly: Wings
Sub-Assembly:  General
Work Time: 3 hours

With the upper skins in place and secured, marked anywhere the skins overlapped.
Removed the excess material with a file.