Flaps completed

It' s been a while since I updated the blog, but lots of work has been accomplished in the meantime. I finished both flaps:They turned out pretty well, I was a little worried about keeping them straight since they are so long (7 1/2 ft) but using the weights to hold everything against the flat building surface really kept things in alignment. I used a specially modified squeezer set (i.e., ground a bevel into one) to squeeze the trailing edge rivets, rather than the standard backriveting. The trailing edges came out nice and straight.

I'm moving on from the wings for now, and starting work on the fuselage. The wings still have some work remaining- the bottom skins need to be riveted on, and the aileron pushrods fabricated. I want to wait on the bottom skins until I decide what all I want to put in the wings (i.e., autopilot servo). And the I want to wait on the pushrods until the wings are attached to the fuse so that they can be cut to the correct length.