Building out the Aileron part of the wings. At this point I almost have both wings done. Will do the leading edge covering later. I will probably do that once I have both built and cut out – maybe this weekend.
Legal Eagle XL Buildlog
Building a Legal Eagle XL Ultralight Airplane
Airplane Section: Wing
Completed first wing main structure – this does not include leading edge or the completed aileron. Starting the next wing – will finish this one up to the same point of the current wing before completing nose and aileron assemblies (most of the parts are complete for the second wing).
Completed the build of the Spars (4). For now, I have not added the spacers for the attachment brackets, especially the rear ones. I was thinking of adding them later after adding/mounting the Ribs but I believe I will attach the front ones since the Ribs will not need to “slide” onto them. While building […]
I decided to build all ribs to include a customized version for different sections of the wings. I have built special aileron ribs, aileron leading and trailing ribs, and a few others. All custom parts are built from Laser or CNC cut parts (like the larger gussets, K blocks…)
Started building the ribs – I can see this is going to be a slow process with wait times between setting glue and staple removal
Making gussets for ribs using a home-built CO2 laser cutter. Cut out a set of Gussets for each rib as I built them. I saw no reason to pre-cut all of them when it only took a minute to fire up the laser and create another set :). Designed the gussets on Fusion 360 using […]