I'm finally back in the saddle again following my medical 'surprise'. i didn't expect it to take me this long to get back into the build, but the time 'off' was good and I got caught up on a lot of things that I'd let slip. My Sis and her husband came over from SoCal this weekend, and I took advantage of Dave's being here to help me get the left wing fit. i helped Dave McNeil fit his wings and we had 5 guys to do it. I was hesitant to try with only the 2 of us, but i've had a hard time trying to round up several people at the same time to help. I set up some saw horses, and we moved the left wing from the cradle to the saw horses, I used some furniture blankets to cushion and 'raise' the level. I had to cut some 2x4"s and duct tape them to one of the saw horses to get it to the right height. Once we got it close, we just slipped the spars into place. I put one of the 'drift pins' into the top inboard hole and then we adjusted the outboard sawhorse w/ Dave's help to get the right alignment for the lower outboard drift pin. and Viola! Wing attached!. Used a cleco to center the rear spar, clamped it and then progressively drilled it to 5/16" and tehn used a reamer to get it to the final 3/8". Clecoes in the bottom and top fairings. Took several test fits to get the inboard edge of the fairings so they would fit with a slight (1/64") gap between them and the fuse side skins. Match drilled them to the fairing support brackets. Then disassembled it all, dimpled the fairings and put the left wing back in the cradle. I can finish up the rest of the items with the wing detached.
Upper wing root fairing clecoed in place and trimmed to fit
