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Last Updated 16 Jul 2006

Apr 2005.  Lot of work buillding the top wing skins.  Thanks to Rick Sked for helping backrivet one side and Cosmo for helping with the other.

First skin test fit. Gotta love these match hole kits.

Starting with the clecoes.

Both skins clecoed on. Hands were worn raw from the cleco pliers. And this was before moving them all over one hole while match drilling!

Another view of the clecoes.

Taking the clecoes back out after match drilling.

Trying to bevel the joint between the inboard and outboard wing skins. Turned out ok.

Another view of the beveled joint in progress.

Closeup of the edge of one of the skins being beveled.

Skins attached. First batch of rivets are taped on. NOTE: I elected to backrivet the wing rivets using a large handheld backrivet bucking bar.

After riveting (well most of it). You judge the results. I highly recommend the backrivetting method here...