Working on the wings.

So the unfinished wings did not have any sort of wing tips.  If I was going to have to build a wing tip for them, I may as well have the newer style W10 tips on them I think.  This required me having to remove one rib from the outboard tip to gain access to the spar to be able to extend the spar some for the tips to be added.  I then built them back up out of wood as they are done on the W10 wings that I built for my other project.  Strangely enough, maybe not, the ailerons and flaps for these wings were built, but not to the plans for a W8 and definitely not for a W10, so they also require some modification as well.  I had to shorten the overall span of them which required moving some of the ribs in the flap portion which also shortened them flaps back to the normal length called out in the plans.

No posting in a long time!

So for anyone that happens upon this site, life has taken me in several sidetracks.  In June of 2011 I bought a project W8 airplane.  It was a fully welded fuselage, many components to complete an airplane, some unfinished wings, but was far from complete.  I got this airplane home and started working on getting things in order.  The airplane had never flown, the welds and workmanship up to this point looked good but needed finishing to get this airplane done.  I have a backlog of information that I need to place here and will try to do so over the next several days.  I have photos of the work that I have added to the project as well as some of my boring commentary.  I still have the W10 project that I started and will someday complete, but since this one is now an iron in the fire I will work on it first and learn some more about putting an airplane together.