The kit crate was opened, and parts pertaining to the wing construction were removed and placed on the table for inspection and logistics planning.  Errors were found in the blocks installed at the wing root, attach fittings.  An additional block was fashioned and installed to correct the problem.  Other Shims were created to properly space the interplane strut, and flying wire attach fittings.   Other called out spacer material in plans are not included, but will be made by stacking 1/8" ply material.  The goal for tomorrow!

6/2/2000	Today all shims were created for interplane strut, and flying wire, attach fittings at mid spar.  Parts were created from 1/16" and 1/8" ply, and glued in place according to plans.  Geometry of fittings were laid out for drilling.  Spar root blocks were made of scrap wood as per plans.      Tomorrow's goal, is to drill all fittings, drill all spars to accept bushings, and cut all bushings to size.  If all goes well, have them glued in place!	5
6/3/2000	All but three fittings were successfully placed and drilled.  With four exceptions, holes were drilled to the 1/4" size only.  Time for drilling oversize holes for bushings ran out. One spar root fitting will need to be replaced.     Tomorrow's goals are to finish the fittings, and cut all the needed bushings	5
6/4/2000	After another approximately 5 hours of work, I've now finished drilling them main spars, and cutting their bushings to size.  Bushings will hopefully be placed, and epoxied in place tomorrow, and the trailing spars will be drilled for bushings and their 3/8's bushings cut.	5
6/5/2000	Spar drilling was finished, and all but one remaining bushing was cut from stock.  3/8th's  stock was short about 1/4" for the need.  Lower right wing was set up on table and ribs arranged.  Spars squared and secured in place.  A few ribs were glued to spar, but lack of clamps prevented any major amount of work being done.  May reset jig  tomorrow as per FFP's recommendation	4
6/7/2000	Picked up a dozen or so clamps today.  Probably won't be enough but a start.  All ribs were attached to main spar by glue at top.  Trailing edge glued to ribs at wing root and first two rib bays.  Presently researching wing walk, compression struts, and geodetics arrangements.  Possible conflict between geodetics and wing walk structure, has me baffled.	3
6/8/2000	Remaining trailing edge material was glued in place. Compression struts also were fashioned and glued into place.  Further corner blocks, and ply gussets will be installed tomorrow. Talked with FFP and have answers on how to place geo's in wing walk area. Decision also was made to move the wing walk and "door" to cockpit also will be moved to port.	1
6/9/2000	Final installation of compression struts completed.  Once glue sets up, geo'd installations will begin. All geodetics on the top side of the wing were installed and braced at mid rib as per plans. After glue was set the wing was lifted, turned over and secured inverted for the installation of Geodetics on the bottom side.  Tomorrow's goal will be to finish the bottom side geodetics.	4
6/10/2000	All lower geodetics were shaped, and installed.  Amazing how fast things go once you've done it once.  The leading edge false spars and leading edge ribs were also glued to the front of the ribs.	3
6/12/2000	The root rib reinforcement was installed on the lower side.  Rib 1/4" ply, reinforcement at each end of the aileron bay was also installed  A jig was built for forming the wing tip bows, and one was produced for the lower right wing on the table.	2
6/14/2000	Wing tip bow was trimmed to shape, and installed.  Aileron portion of wing was cut away to prepare the aileron bay area.  All stiffeners for root and tip ribs were shaped and glued in place.  Stiffeners were also installed to short ribs at each end of aileron bay.	2
6/15/2000	Further reinforcement of the aileron bay was completed.  Aileron was clamped to table, squared and spar installed.  A few geodetics were also installed to stiffen structure.  Aileron end ribs were aligned and installed also.  Ply reinforcement 1/8" x 1/2" spruce slots were cut as a stack for alignment ease.	3
6/16/2000	Aileron leading edge short ribs were aligned and slots cut for leading edge reinforcement slats.  They were then glued in place along with the spruce slats.  Several more geodetics were also placed at this time.  1/4" x 3/4" material that borders aileron bay at top and bottom was reinforced to handle fabric shrinking loads.  Leading edge 1/32 ply attached to top false spar.  Once dry it will be wrapped around and glued to the bottom false spar.	1
6/17/2000	Leading edge material was glued in place one side at a time.  Ply pieces were places so that their joining scarf, was centered over a nose reinforcing rib.  A few other geodetics were placed on the aileron also.  Preparations are being made to attach the aileron control horn.	1
6/21/2000	For the last few days I've been just hum hawing around trying to put off making a decision as to how to do the hinges.  It is now the 25th, and have finally found a way of doing it that satisfies me.  The root hinge point was done exactly as per plans.  The tip rib hinge drawing left much to the imagination.  I've pretty much done things as per plans, but making it so it could be removed through one inspection plate hole was a challenge.  Floating blind nuts were adhered and riveted to the aileron bay side of the rib.	2
6/25/2000	Today I merely cleaned up the excess glue drops, and did a touch of sanding.  The spar webbing was cut for the aileron bell crank, and the lay out was checked for reasonable function.  Brass bushings were also created for the aileron bell crank, in stead of the called out wood spacer between the two bell crank halves.  Though later the aileron bay will have to be trimmed to assure full deflection, I considered the lions share of this wing complete.	2

6/25/2000	Pulled out the main and trailing spars for now the lower left wing.  Ribs were slid on, and assembly was clamped down for alignment.  Some warp found in both main and trailing spars.  All parts are now held in place straight, and will be allowed to relax before major work begins.	1
6/26/2000	Well once you've done it once, it all falls together in a hurry.  In a matter of 5 hours I've accomplished nearly half of the lower left wing, including geodetics, and the wing walk region.  Geodetic reinforcement tabs at mid ribs is all that is left on this side of the wing.  They will be place tomorrow, a.m. and then the wing will be turned over.	5
6/27/2000	Well things never seem to go as smoothly as you see in foresight.  Final rib, to geodetics tabs were installed, along with the wing walk 1/4" ply surface installed.   However, By 2000, the wing was turned over, and all geodetics installed, awaiting the tabs between the rib caps, and geodetics only.  Leading edge false spars were installed. Wing tip bow was also laminated during the day.	4
6/28/2000	Today's work was extensive, but in the final assembly of a wing, a lot of work seems to show little results.  The lower left wing is finished at this point, but aileron work is merely just begun.  The ailerons for some reason really can be time intensive, since there are so many parts, they have to be done in a certain order, and alignment is critical.  Regardless, another full day's work will bring this wing to a finish.  Then upper wings!	4
7/2/2000	After returning from a trip, I finished up the aileron bay's, and put the 1/4" end ribs on the ailerons.  Tomorrow, I'll start putting the geodetics in place on the ailerons, and wrap the leading edge material around the nose ribs on the left wing.	1
7/3/2000	Geodetics were placed on the aileron.  End rib stiffeners also added.  Aileron is ready for hardware	1
7/17/2000	Finally some time was made to do a bit of work on the Youngster.  Though no glue was used, the left aileron was rigged with hardware, hinge and horn installed.  Leading edge material is still not finished, maybe Thursday	2
7/21/2000	Finally got the leading edge material wrapped and glued on the lower left wing.  Tired of looking at it, and set it aside.  Picked out spars for upper right wing and laid them out on the table with their 9 ribs.  I then place the spar end blocks at the 2 1/8" stagger to provide the wing sweep back.  May find time to do some work tomorrow.	1

7/21/2000	Well today I did get a good start on the upper wing.   After about the first hour of alignment, and securing of the main spars, I was able to start the next step which is the compression struts.  There are four in this wing, and the placement of one is actually called out on the plans.  If I place it where the measurement is called out, The front of it will be placed exactly in the middle of the interplane / flying wire attach points!  Trying to find out if it's placement is critical or not at this point.  I'll call somebody tomorrow.	2
7/22/2000	Today I was a bit short on motivation today.  For some reason the the compression struts are always more difficult than they would seem.  Trying to hold them in place along with the corner gusset blocks can be quite the challenge.  All the top rib cap strips were glued to the spars today, and about half of the false ribs.  All four compression struts were installed and blocked properly.  All geodetics for the top side of this wing panel were cut to shape and length, sanded and are ready to install.  Beginning to wonder if I'm going to have enough Geo material to finish the last wing panel.  Two pieces of trailing edge material were cut for splicing purposes.  If I get the time tomorrow will be a major gluing and achieving day.	3
7/24/2000	As you can see, I didn't manage to make it to the garage on Sunday.  We did achieve a lot at church and the fellowship that surrounds it.  However, this evening I did get out there for about 45 minutes.   All top side geodetics were glued in place, remaining false ribs, and the trailing edge material was also glued.  Hope to attach trailing edge, and glue geo to rib mount tabs.	1
7/25/2000	Today was spent preparing the wing tip bows, for this wing panel, along with the bow that makes the cutout to ease pilot entry.  Learned something today about laminating bows.  About an hour after the glue set on the bows I removed them from the jig to make sure they would break free.  While I had them out, I did a quick dry fit of the entry bow, and saw that it would work quite well.  So I continued working on the area, removing rib parts, to mount the support ribs for this bow.  Again attempting a dry fit of the parts, I could no longer achieve as good of a fit!  Yes the bow was changing shape.  So I go back to my old way of doing bows.  After you break it out of the jig, return it to the jig and leave it alone for at least 24 hours!?  Tabs between geodetics and ribs were also installed.  Trailing edge was glued in place, ready to receive the top wing entry bow. Top side geodetic to rib cap pieces were also installed to end the day's work.	1
7/27/2000	Went out this afternoon and pulled the wing up from the table and tuned it over to do the underside geodetics.  After much study and measurement, I again clamped the structure to the table.  Top wing entry bow was also glued to the trailing edge, and to the former at the second rib.   Tomorrow, I'll get the geodetics done on this side.	1
7/28/2000	As planned, I did get the geodetics done on the bottom of the wing panel.  Tabs attaching geodetics to rib caps were also installed.  Remaining two formers for top wing entry bow were also installed, along with their triangular corner blocks.  Single geodetics were installed in second trailing rib bay, as well as final trailing rib bay , to add stiffness.  These were not called out in the plans, but looked like a reasonable modification.  Tomorrow starts the leading edge, and root/tip rib reinforcement.  Another good day's work should do it for this wing, but we all know how that goes.	2
7/31/2000	Today I installed the false spars and leading edge rib formers.  Leading edge ply was also installed this evening.  Rib stiffeners at root and tip ribs are yet to be completed.  Hope to get started on the FINAL wing tomorrow.   Just for grins I had to go out to the shop this evening and place the final spars on the table!  About another 2 weeks and I should be on the fuselage! You will notice that just inside the tip rib, and one bay inside the root rib, I've put a diagonal geodetic to the trailing edge.  This was not called out in the plans, but I felt it would help stabilize the trailing edge.  The ones towards the root will be visible through the fabric due to the shape of the cockpit entry bow.  Good place for hind site I guess.	2

8/1/2000	Well work on the final wing panel started today in earnest.  All ribs were glued in place at the top spar cap, and compression struts fitted.  I ran out of time at that point and will have to continue gluing in the final two compression struts tomorrow.	3
8/3/2000	Compression struts, gusset blocks and doublers were installed today.  May add some doublers to the aft area tomorrow.  Looks nice, and can't hurt the strength. all geodetics were cut for the top side of the wing.  They will be sanded and installed tomorrow morning. Trailing edge stock was spliced and cut to fit, this too will be glued in place tomorrow.  Other plans for tomorrow will be the lamination of the wing tip, and cockpit entry bow for this wing.	1
8/4/2000	Ok, so not everything went to plans!  I did get the geodetics in place, and the trailing edge.  Though I laid out the material for the tip  and entry bows, I didn't get around to spreading any glue there.  So, we'll try to get to that and the tabs between the geodetics and rib caps for tomorrow.  Then, I'll turn wing over and start again! This could get old.	1
8/5/2000	I did get the wing tip bow, and entry bow laminated.  All rib to geodetic tabs were installed.  Will turn wing over and start geodetics on monday.	2
8/7/2000	Wing has been turned over and reattached to table. All geodetics cut, sanded and glued in place.  Entry bow and supporting ribs were also glued in place. Trying to find enough material to finish the leading edge false spars, and end rib reinforcement.  Will scavenge a bit of material from the fuse kits to get us by for a while.  Next work period is the leading edge, wing tip, and tabs between rib caps, and geodetics.	2
8/11/2000	First off I glued tabs in place and a few stiffening reinforcement geodetics for the trailing edge.  When dry, I glued in leading edge false spar, and short riblets.  All leading edge material was planed to shape, and is ready to accept leading edge 1/32 ply.  Rib end stiffeners were cut to size, and will be soaked and installed in the morning.  I had to steal nearly 20 feet from fuse F47 stringer parts.  I'll make it up later somehow.	2
8/12/2000	Lots of work, seemingly nothing accomplished.  All rib and tip root reinforcements were installed, to fourth and 3rd  wing panels.  Leading edge ply was attached to top of false spar, should wrap it around and glue to lower false spar tomorrow.  Two top wings were inspected and any gaps in leading edge material to riblets were filled using 50% glass balloons slurry.  Small crack in leading edge material was also filled with same from behind and planed and sanded down to proper contour.  Rest of time was spent doing little detail clean up, trimming, gap filling, cutting scallops, sanding etc. . . .  Is there light at the end of this tunnel yet?	3
8/15/2000	Again it seems that work has interfered with my best laid plans.  This morning I did finally get around to rolling the final leading edge on the the final wing panel, so next opportunity, I'll start the detail clean up on the next work period.  I will be working with the aileron rigging on the lower left wing also.	1

8/17/2000	Does it ever end?  I've spent approximately 4 hours so far on the wings today, and see only modest progress.  All the scallops have been cut in the leading edge ply, and a few doublers for the aft end of the compression struts (cosmetic only) have been installed.  Preparations for the leading edge ply on the ailerons has also been started.  Lower left wing spar was cut out for aileron bell crank installation.   Looking at all four wing panels lined up against the wall kind of make it look like I got a Trellis project confused with my aircraft building goal!	4
8/21/2000	Continuing the clean up of the wood structure on the wings, brings back a debate I've had on the other airplanes I've built.  Other than sanding, any other preparation for paint, will cause weight.  I'm not building a show winner, but want the fun and performance that a built to plans, and light aircraft can provide.   Aileron bellcranks were assembled, as were the wood/ply blocks that will support them.  Aileron pushrod material was found and removed from the box.	2
8/22/2000	Wood dowels were placed in Aileron to bellcrank pushrods at aileron end and epoxied in place.  The 9/64ths slot was cut to receive the aileron horn.  By some time tomorrow these things may even work!?	1
8/23/2000	1600, the ailerons work!  Bellcranks were installed in-between their mount blocks with a washer on both sides.  The base of the blocks were then checked to assure a flat overall surface to glue to the 1/6" ply webbing.  Once dry, pushrod from bellcrank to aileron was bent to accommodate full travel as per plans.  Then ailerons were placed a full down travel and the 3/4" x 3/4" vertical brace was glued in behind the spar to support the bellcrank assembly.  Pushrods that then travel to the control stick in the cockpit were drilled at one end, but no more will be done to them until control rigging at assembly.  Tomorrow's operations will mainly consist of prepping the wings for varnish.  Sand paper time!  Also a great amount of time will be spent cleaning up the shop preparing for the construction of the fuselage.	4
8/24/2000	Ailerons were removed and great time was spend truing up the leading edges to receive the ply with uniformity.  Listening to people now trying to get the best way to do the glue operation on the ply.	1
8/26/2000	Insides of the aileron leading edges were varnished and left to dry while I was away.	1
8/28/2000	Aileron control horns were installed on both ailerons.  Areas where epoxy would be adhering was inspected to assure bare wood was available for best joint.  Aileron leading edges were also soaked and bent in preparation of the gluing operation to the leading edges of the ailerons.  You can see them rolled inside the 4" sewer pipe to the left of the aileron on the table.  Ply was removed from tube and dried wrapped in rubber bands to hold shape. Ply pieces were then coated inside with epoxy to protect from weather, and then glued to leading edge of aileron.  It will be unwrapped, cleaned up and trimmed tomorrow.  Then the work on the final aileron will be prepared.	1
8/29/2000	The last aileron had its leading edge material applied successfully today.  Will take a bit of clean up tomorrow, but has already been placed on the wing for my own enjoyment.  Got to see progress where ever you can get it!	1

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