Busy, busy day. After completing the light, I attached the outer and mid skins in an afternoon. I had already attached the inboard skin and its wing root doubler, so it wasn’t much work to complete these two pages. (Well, it was a lot of work, but it was boring repetitive and fast work.)
Outer & Mid upper skins
I did discover a moderate “oops” when I started riveting the mid skin. The nose rib at the junction of mid and outer lower skins had been completely missed when I placed the 5 rivets on the leading edge. I realized the problem when I tried to align the 6th hole in the rib. It wasn’t hard to drill out the 5 rivets, but getting the debris out of the wing bays was very hard, and I’m not sure I got the little bits of rivet from the shop side. Hopefully I got them all. I’ll let you know when I pick up the wing again and if it makes any noise!
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