Junior high PE. Do you remember shirts and skins? My first metal shop was also in junior high. Thank you Mr. Bradshaw for what I learned, especially the safety stuff. I also hit my first rivet in junior high metal shop. I still have the napkin holder I made. I lost the BBQ set though.

OK, on to work.

What a day.  The ribs are riveted on.

On to the skins!

Alignment is important and wing twist (or washout) must be eliminated.

Top rear skin first, then rear bottom skins then forward skins.

Forward skins will be the trickiest. They are kind of pre-formed but not all the way.

We are going to need MORE clecos. When building the RV-9A, most wing rivets are silver clecos. ALL the skin blind rivets are copper clecos. I’ll need MANY more copper clecos to finish this job. I probably over cleco but it makes sure everything is properly aligned.

By the way, Tom and I both wear shirts during assembly.