17-2 step 1:
Aaaannnddd, there was even more deburring today… we
learned from the horizontal & vertical stabilizers if the nose ribs
aren't deburred fairly well on their nose, they have a tendencey to
scratch the skin when clecoing them in. So, we got them mostly
deburred, and then Angela started straightening the flanges, and
then...
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worked on fluting the flanges. These nose ribs for the wings have
the most pronounced warp due to the flanges we've seen so far…
so fluting took a little while.
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17-2 step 3:
While Angela was working on fluting the rib flanges, I stole 4 of
the ribs from her to make the cutouts that will fit around the spar
bars. Here you can see one of the ribs before (on the right) and
one after the cutouts were made (left).
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17-3 step 2:
And here are most of the ribs clecoed in the left outboard
leading edge. It's missing the most inboard rib (farthest away in
the picture) because we still need to separate the splice strip, that
gets sandwiched in between the rib and the skin, from the fuel tank
skin. We've also got the whole right side leading edge to get to
this point... we're off and running on the wings though!!!
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