[20042008] - Wings

Building the Wings - The stuff of Lift


	20/04/2008 - Conduit and pitot holes Not many pictures today; but most of the day was spent drilling the holes for the conduit using a step drill and jig which can be seen in the picture. (Download the plans for the conduit holes off Van's web site. We also drilled the left hand wing skeleton just as we had done for the right hand one 2 weeks before. As I had bought safe airs plumbing kit for AOA and pitot; the kit includes snap bushings for the lines. So the three holes in the mains ribs were drilled out to except the bushings. I didn't have the right size drill for this; and having been caught not having the right size drill before decided to buy an engineering kit with all the fractional sizes in. Whilst not as good as the purpose made aircraft ones they certainly do for odd jobs where a peculiar size is needed. The last hour of the day was spent making the jig for the fuel tanks and starting on the z brackets.

Nothing more for today...