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Activities during 2023.
Album by John Cronin.
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Starting to build spars. First pieces are the doublers.
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1/23/23
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Cutting eight pieces to 139".
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Gluing doublers.
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1/31/23. Nick sanding the doubler and spar cap to remove some glue and smooth the surfaces.
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Collin doing the same thing.
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Julia marking the location of verticals.
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Saige making block pieces for the jig.
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Luke also marking the location of verticals.
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Giancarlo working on a piece of the spar.
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Ben working on a piece for the spar.
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Hannah also working on a piece for the spar.
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2/6
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2/13...Gluing the first spar together.
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2/20 flipped spar over and sanding so it's all smooth and excess glue removed.
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Trimming the root end.
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Gluing the first area for plywood.
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Coral cutting a doubler for second spar.
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Saige preparing to make the taper of a doubler.
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First spar (on right) is glued. Second spar is in progress in the jig.
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Giancarlo finishing the taper on both doublers.
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2/27 cutting and gluing pieces for the other front spar
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Removing staples and trimming plywood from edge of first spar.
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3/6 Working on forward spar for left wing.
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Forward left spar.
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Removing blocks in preparation to make aft spars.
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Giancarlo made four reinforcement pieces for right forward spar.
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Ben glued two of them in place.
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3/13 Making rear spar jig
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Making some vertical pieces for rear spar.
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Pulling staples from forward spar.
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Making glue for a couple of braces.
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Hannah making a root brace piece for bracket mount.
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Ben making a vertical piece.
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Finishing off the jig.
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Selling 768 candy bars to raise funds.
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Starting work on doublers.
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Starting work on the center board of a aft spar.
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3/27 Working on the center piece for a aft spar.
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Gluing doublers on aft spar.
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Sanding ends of forward spars.
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Drove 2.5 hours to purchase spruce locally for the fuselage. Yep, that's next (after wings)!
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Sanding one edge of center plywood for aft spar.
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Glue party. Aft spar right wing.
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4/10 Removing staples
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Measuring to make a doubler.
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Cutting a aft spar doubler for left wing.
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4/17 Just cut a corner of a aft spar.
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Nice!
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Gluing a lower doubler to an aft spar.
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Cutting a aft spar doubler.
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Gluing a gusset at bracket location.
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Finishing off the taper on a aft spar doubler.
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Will trim nose ribs to fit.
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About to glue all the plywood on.
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Removing excess glue and plywood edge.
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About to glue diagonal gussets on aft spar.
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5/22 Cutting bushings for spars.
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Making a jig to drill pilot holes in spar fittings.
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End of May glue party. Last spar
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Gluing root doubler.
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Reaming a fitting.
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6/5 smoothing the edges of fittings.
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Drilling holes in fittings.
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6/12..preparing to glue aileron horn blocks.
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Reaming spar fittings.
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Aileron horn mounts glued.
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Spar fittings in the drill jig.
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Sanding diagonal pieces on a spar.
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6/19 drilled and reamed holes all day.
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6/26 Getting ready to drill a forward spar in the strut area.
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With that done, gluing the last doubler on.
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Drilling the last aileron fitting.
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Drilling the holes for fitting Aileron #5 left and right.
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7/10 Sanding the last diagonal.
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Staining areas where brackets will be mounted.
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7/17 Getting ready to drill holes in the root.
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!/4" holes get enlarged to 3/8". We will use 11 bits to gradually enlarge all 16 holes.
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7/24 Putting glue in the holes. They then inserted bushings.
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Screwing anchor nuts to a root rib.
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All the drill bits used to go from 1/4" to 3/8". Metric bits were used also.
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Jig for drilling 1/4" bit straight into spar. We drilled the final 3/8" from both sides of the spar to make sure the holes were straight.
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It can be adjusted for different size drill bits.
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7/31 attached all brackets to tip, root and #5 ribs. Not the aileron horn yet.
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Building the wing jig.
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Sliding ribs on the root section.
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Sliding ribs on the tip section.
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All ribs except end ribs are in position.
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Notching rib #1 to fit on the doubler.
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Notching root rib to fit on doubler.
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Gluing the doublers on.
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Gluing ribs to forward spar. Left wing.
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Working on a compression piece.
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8/28 working on compression and anti-drag pieces.
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9/11 working on a diagonal anti-drag piece.
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Cleaning out an area for the root fitting to go.
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Used cardboard to locate the fitting location.
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Working on triangle blocks for diagonals.
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9/18, last compression and anti-drag pieces and couple of gussets.
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I don't let the kids use the router. I used it to make a notch in a anti-drag diagonal.
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Applying varnish to areas where fittings will be attached. Will varnish everything later on.
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Removing glue so parts will fit.
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Cutting hole for fittings to extend out.
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Marking rib locations on aft spar.
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Very happy with a doubler she made.
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Notching compression pieces to fit at gussets.
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Shaping fuel tank support pieces.
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Looks good!
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Had to modify this end.
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Working on block for under diagonal.
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Gluing the wing has commenced!
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Last minute notching for good fit.
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The internal wing is all glued. Next will be the aileron.
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Turning the wing around to work on the aileron.
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We removed some wood from the end of ribs so the top capstrip meets the trailing edge smoothly.
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Making gussets for trailing edge.
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Sanding the edge of spar web.
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Trimming trailing edge.
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Making the cut-out on aileron spar web.
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11/20 Glueing outboard aileron spar web into ribs.
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Cutting the inboard aileron spar web to near final length.
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11/27 Working on the doubler.
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Gluing wing tip.
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Gluing root rib.
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Working on the stiffeners for aileron spar.
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12/4 more work on the stiffeners.
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12/11 gluing aileron nose pieces and diagonals.
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12/18 sanding the edges.
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Wing flipped over. Sanding any glue or wood to make a smooth surface.
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Gluing the RS3 pieces to aileron web.
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Working on the diagonals.
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Making and gluing the trailing edge gussets.
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