Final Assembly Cont.
Complete Landing Gear Cont.
91.
Fit provided plastic wheels or the optional finished wheel assemblies to the landing gear
wire. You may either trim the wire to length and fit the wheel retainers that came with the
optional wheel assemblies, or bend the wire up 90 degrees and trim off the excess to retain
the provided wheels.
Finish the Lower Wing
92.
Fit the lower wing spar W15 to the slots in the
bottom
of the fuselage sides just
forward
of
the
rear
landing gear struts. Ensure that W15 is fully seated within the slots, and bond with
CA glue.
Note: We programed the laser to cut a small horizontal line directly above the spar
engagement slot that references the proper depth at which W15 is entirely seated within the
fuselage assembly. The top surface of spar W15 should not be seated past this laser cut
line and trying to install the W15 beyond this line would likely result in the crushing of the
balsa at the fuselage sides.
93.
Laminate one W16 and one W17 rib together. While it doesn’t matter which rib is on which
side as the ribs are identical, the plan shows W16 on the
inside
and W17 to the
outside
.
Align the edges carefully, or use the alignment holes, and wick CA glue between the ribs to
bond.
94.
Fit the paired W16/W17 rib assembly to the notch in the
left
side of the spar.
Do not bond.
95.
Slit the covering over the two slots in the fuselage side to receive W18. Fit the wing root
sheeting W18, previously covered, to the fuselage side and the ribs W16/W17. Only the
inner
rib, W16, will be covered by W18 as the
outer
W17 rib will receive the
outer
wing
panel when it is installed.
96.
Grab the
lower-left
wing panel, turn the model over, and insert the tab at the end of W15
into the slot in rib W12 just below the balsa spar. Fit the root of the wing panel to the
exposed rib in the W16/W17 assembly. Bond the panel at rib W12, along the seam
between the spars, and along the wing root at the paired W16/W17 rib.
Repeat steps 93 through 96, substituting references to the
left
and
lower-left
with
right
and
lower-right
to complete the installation of the
right
wing panel.
Finish the Upper Wing
97.
Lay the center section assembly on the table up-side-down. Fit the Cabane Strut Jig to the
ribs as shown in the picture, aligning the
front
face of the jig with the
trailing
edge of the
center section.
Do not bond the jig to the wing assembly!
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