April 9th - More top skins and wing walk

Worked on the pilot side wing walk and glued in the cross braces.  Glued on leading edge ribs.  Next week we will be ready to cover the remaining top skins on the pilot side.

The Passenger side was closed up today after we completed floxing the gear leg to the bracket.  The landing gear is all glued and tightened up.  The top skins are completed other than the trailing edge.

I may go to the airport tomorrow to work on the trailing edges.

April 3rd - More top skin work

Glued in the top foam skin on the passenger side and started gluing in the leading edge ribs.  Discussed canopy options and purchased paint to mark all the bolts.  We will paint a stripe on the bolts and nuts so when we inspect the plane annually, we can tell if anything has come loose.

March 19th - Finishing up the Passenger side wing walk

Today we added the wood that spans across the wooden ribs and cut 3/32" plywood and foam to fit the inboard top wing area.  We also went through and verified all the bolts were tight on the wing attach fittings and the landing gear.  We realized *After* we glued these in that we did not flox the gear leg to the bracket yet..  We'll work on that next week!  We also stopped at our new home improvement store, Menards, while we were out at lunch.  They have all our wing foam and at a cheaper price!  I'm sure the rest of the wing foam will be purchased there soon.

We need to complete the top skins so we can flip the plane and finish the bottom skins.

March 12th - Work started on the Wing Walks

Wing walks are provided to make an area to strong enough to walk on.  Many people think that an airplane must be really strong to fly!  That's not always true.  The wings are made of Foam and fiberglass.  They can withstand a total load of 3G's at 1200 LBS.  That's 3600 LBS of force spread evenly across the surface.  The key phrase is "Evenly across the surface".  The KR2S has 82 Square feet of surface area, so that means 1 square foot of the wing can only support 43 LBS.  A person's shoe applies all your weight in less than 1/2 a square foot.

In the picture, you can see 2 foam ribs and 2 wood ribs closest to the fuselage.

January 30th - Wing Skins

It was the first decent day to get back to work..  We did a bit of cleaning and continued working on the wing skins.  It was still cold, so progress was slow.

The Left and right Top Outer wing skins are complete.  We will need to start working on the wing walk area soon before we can close in the inner part of the wing.