Main Spar

The wings arrived in two boxes on November 2, 2011, just two days before my Dad arrived to help jumpstart the project. 

Here I am with Stefan and my Dad.  We are just about to begin working on the main spars, which you can see laying acrosss the table.

The first job is to rivet the spar extensions to the main spars.  Stefan is seen here sanding one of them.  My Dad is helping sand the other one.

 The extensions have been riveted on the main spars.  You can see the silver extensions now coupled to the gold spars.

The wing access/fuel tank nut plates have been riveted to the flanges of the spars.  These nutplates will enable removal of the skins to view the fuel tank and interior of the wings.

Stefan and my Dad worked on the riveting of the nut plates.

I worked on countersinking every one of about 300 holes.

More countersinking.  You can see the shavings come off the holes.  The countersunk holes will receive the dimples in the skins.

My Dad and Stefan are attaching the tie down plates for the wings.

Four days later, we've completed the main spars.  They don't look much different to anyone but us.  Thanks for your help Dad!