With the right wing safely stored away, we started working on the fabric covering for the left wing. First, we cleaned up the wing, as it had accumulated a nice layer of dust while being stored in the shed. We cut two large sheets of fabric for covering both sides of the wing (but are starting with the bottom side first). We applied three layers of glue to the bottom ribs, leading edge, trailing edge, and fabric plates.
We laid the fabric over the wing, and started gluing the bottom sheet in place, starting from the trailing edge, then the ribs, then the leading edge. We had to carefully trim around the strut attach brackets. The fabric was shrunk at the lowest setting (250 degrees), and then we finished gluing the rest of the leading edge. A soldering iron was used to burn the holes for fabric rivets and nut plates. We will install the fabric rivets before shrinking the fabric at the higher settings. Hours: 6
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| Bottom fabric on left wing, with partial shrink |
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| Leading edge., before the scrap hanging down was trimmed off |
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| Fabric rivet holes and drain hole opened up with soldering iron |
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| Top view of wing shows how the fabric wraps around the leading edge |
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