Cotton Waiex 191 - N191YX

[samiam]

Keep up the good work Bryan. I'll be posting my finished tail photos soon... you have been a good inspiration to keep on keepin on!

[Bryan Cotton]

Thanks Mike!

Bottom skin, right wing, clecoed to aft spar only:

[Bryan Cotton]

Let there be clecoes!

Minimal rib tweaking. Everything was just lined up.

[Bryan Cotton]

Here is my pancake drill. It is awesome!


Ready for the top skin:

You can see I have a bunch of kludged shims leveling the wing. The last one holds the wing from sliding back:


I did the same on the front. This locks the wing to the table.

[Bryan Cotton]

Adam came out to help me skin the top of the right wing:


We had to go to hearing protection mode. One of our cordless drills only has one battery. It gave up so I pulled out the air drill.


We have the top ribs mostly drilled. I will need to tweak the flutes on a few ribs.


Adam totals his hours every session. Tonight he hit 191- our serial number. Together I think we passed 1000 hours tonight.

[Sonex1243]

Man, you guys are moving quick on the second wing! Always enjoy seeing your progress and updates.

[kevinh]

Hi Bryan,

It seems you drilled the bottom aft skin first, rather than the factory sequence of doing the top aft skin first. Any particular reason? (I'll be doing mine tomorrow)

Looks great!

Kevin

[Bryan Cotton]

Thanks guys! With two drills going it went fast. Kevin, I may have screwed up. Probably sleep deprivation. Probably not too important as long as you true the wing before you skin each side. It is still flexible after you do one side. What I like about doing the bottom first is less flipping, because I think you should do the LE top before the bottom.

[vwglenn]

:shock: Is that decaf? How do you get anything done? :D

[Bryan Cotton]

Ye Gods, I don't drink decaf. Life support would fail. That was either my wife or in-law's coffee.