September 2003
Article by Mike Whaley
Taking long strides on the lower wing construction. Built jigs for the wingtip bows, and produced the first set of bows. Well along with rib construction. During the process, revised plans in CAD as small issues were discovered (mostly interference tweaks, nothing major.)
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- You need a LOT of clamps to build wooden airplane wings! Here, laminated wingtip bows and laminated capstrips are being formed. (Later, we started forming the capstrips as sheets, and sawing them into strips afterwards.)
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- John Hollister holds a rib in the Steen Aero woodshop… John does really nice work.
