Well the travel with my job has slowed progress to a crawl but I took Thanksgiving week off and decided it was time

to plug the wings into the hole.  This is another mildstone for the project.  Funny thing is when you decide this is what

you want to do next, it prompts a whole bunch of preparation before it actually takes place.  I spent an entire day running

around getting things, welding an adjustable stand to support the fuselage and allow leveling of it.

First I hung the pushrods with tape.

Then I wacked the rear spar tab per the plans.

There is plenty of material here.  Save yourself some trouble, cut it 1/16" shorter than Vans shows.

Heres the jickey little support I made to work with my Rotating RV Stand.  The bottom of the legs are nuts welded in with

bolts screwed it them for adjusting the Fuselage level. The weldments just sit in the top of the tubing.  This thing made the

Fuselage rock solid.  Notice I also cut the fuel tubing to about 3 1/2" long which turned out to be perfect length.

This is the level measuring fore and aft of the longeron.  .1 of a degree is just fine.  When adjusting incidence I'll match this

reading.

I coated the main spar with a very thin coating of grease. I used an adjustable, tall work chair and removed the back rest.

This allowed me to lift and lower the root as needed.  Jim Andrews held the wing tip and wiggled it up and down while

I watched from inside the cockpit with a mirror and the 7/16" pins ready to drive in when the holes were aligned..

Dropped the 4 plumb bobs down and aligned all 4 plumb bobs hanging from the leading edge up perfectly with a string drawn

tight on the floor.

After the sweep and incidence was set perfectly It was time to drill the rear spar.  Holding a 3/16" drill bit nice and level I

drilled the first hole.

After checking sweep we realized the rivet at the top of the spar tab was causing interference to obtain the proper "0" sweep

at the leading edge of the wing.  We were able to pull each wing out a bit so I could Dremel the top of the rear spar away in

order to clear the rivet head.  After the wings are removed later I will clean this area up a bit.  I also had to Dremel a bit away

just under the rivet to clear the skin.  This is why I said up front it would have been great to cut the tab about 1/16" shorter

than the plans call for here.

Drilled the left rear spar.

Heres a shot of the fuel line length in relation to the AN fitting in the tank.

Couldn't wait to hop in!

Words of wisdom.......After installing the wings and moving forward with tasks.  Next I decided to install the forward tank

brackets.  Well I quickly realized there is a piece of angle and shims that go inside the fuselage to reinforce where these

brackets go.  It would have been a hell of a lot easier to install these while I could still rotate the Fuselage on the stand.

From the looks of things all parts could have been fabbed and holes drilled early on.  Oh well the QB thing got me here.