Wings!!!

The plan was for the help to show up at 9am, so I went out at 7:30 to get everything ready for assembly. I had all the bolts laid out and the struts complete. We used my super ladder with a Sensenich propeller box and a blanket on top. I tried to keep the parts marked as to where they were when we took it apart, but 4 years is a long time. With one man at the tip and two at the root we installed the root bolts, then rested the wing on the ladder rig while we fitted the struts. It all went smooth with no damage.We put the easy wing on first.

The only thing more difficult about the left side was the pitot lines and the forward spar bolt had to be put in from the other side. With my expert help this was no problem. Here they are, they are still in shock , they have never helped me put a plane back together!  It took less than an hour to put the wings on.

There is still a lot of rigging to do, and it will require some compromise because she is old and a little bent and twisted in spots. The STC calls for 1 degree dihehral and 1 degree washout. That is almost the same as a Vagabond. We spent the next hour trying to make a water level, it's a good thing were not plumbers because we could not fill a tube with water? With the wind kicking up to 30 kts we decided to knock off until the nasty cold front passed. Tomorrow should be a fantastic day. Here are a few more shots, looks good back together.