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| Starting wing assembly. First thing you do is slide all the ribs onto the spars. You've got to make sure they go on smoothly and can be angled at 6° for the sweep of the upper wing. |
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| Trim the spar opening uprights on the ribs wherever necessary so that the ribs can be angled at 6° without binding. This is why you use shims while assembling the ribs on the jig, but some fine tuning may be required during wing assembly. |
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| I love seeing it come together! |
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| ONLY AFTER the ribs are all adjusted properly so they don't bind when angled at 6° should you epoxy the scab plates to the spars. After these are in place, the ribs can't come off! Every place a bracket touches the spars, you have to have a scab plate. |
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| Scab plates clamped in place while the epoxy cures. |
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| The biggest scab plate: outer end of the main spars on the upper wings. |
Make sure to watch my aviation YouTube channel, Aviation Fanatic, for lots of videos about this build.
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