| Finally! With the Emp hung on the wall, I begin work on the wings. These are the main wing spars, now prepped with gas tank nutplates, tie down AEX and bellcrank brackets. Lots of countersunk hand squeezed rivets |
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| Beautiful gold anodized main wing spars. Don't want to mess these up! |
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| Main, tip and tank ribs deburred, ready for priming. |
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| I really don't know him |
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| Main ribs riveted to front and rear spars, and placed in the wing stand for skin fitting. |
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| Top skin and leading edge clecoed and drilled, pretty cool huh? Time to start work on the tanks. |
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| One problem, is that the tip and tank ribs don't fit exactly right, so there is some massaging required Vans said that some extra work on the ribs is expected. |