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No work on the plane yesterday since we were closing on our house. The closing only took 30 minutes, and the best part is that we were already renting the house so we don’t have to move. I imagine that house projects will now start to cut into my building time, but I’ll also be able to start saving more money for the airplane since our mortgage payment will be slightly less than our rent was.
Back to airplane work. I had a very quick building session this evening, and only accomplished riveting the reinforcement plates to the ends of the aileron spars. For now, each plate is fastened with only three rivets since the remaining holes will be used for ribs. I double and triple checked the planes to make sure I was riveting the correct holes, which means the first thing I did was squeeze a rivet in the wrong hole! Oh well, I drilled it out and no damage was done. I also riveted a nutplate to the inboard end of each spar at this time.
The inboard end of the aileron spar after riveting the reinforcement plate and nutplate.
The outboard end of the aileron spar after riveting the reinforcement plate.
