5th July 2016 - Left wing intersection fairing - day 5

For the last few days I've been building the intersection fairing for the left wing. As at today the structure is complete and the next jobs are to fill/finish the outside surface and install plate nuts to the fuselage side and screw-in inserts into the wing root. I'm using screw-in inserts to take a M3 screw. These only need a 5mm hole so will easily install into the 12.5mm wide root rib. These will be glued into place so there will be no impact on the rib's strength.
The intersection fairing is made from 0.032" aluminium sheet with fibreglass laid up round the curves. A slurry of resin and microballoons on top of the glass cloth was used to create the leading edge shape.

1st July 2016 - Starting on the wing root fairings

The intersection fairings to the wheel spats and leg fairings are complete other than final painting and screwed into place. I used rivnuts into the cowling, wheel spats and outer floor of the aircraft to provide the anchorage points.  I'll wait to complete the painting until all the other new bits are complete.
Next job is to create wing root fairings to fill the gap between the wings and the fuselage. To get ready to start this I installed the left wing to the fuselage - it still fits!
Then it started raining - typical.