Section 14 – Top Skin

Dad is in town and we’ve had a good couple of days working on the right wing. First we finished riveting the inboard top skin to the ribs and spar. The we dimpled the outboard top skin and riveted it as well. We estimate that we drove about 600 rivets over the past two days.
RV-14 Right Wing

Below you can see the J-Channel box stiffeners inserted in the ribs and riveted to the wing skin.
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Here is the outboard aileron bracket riveted to the outboard rib and aft spar.
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And here’s a time lapse video of our work today:

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