With the left wing back on I could make another matching baffle that matches precisely to the wing itself. I’d already prepared the piece when I made the rids so it only needed to be cut to size.

I again used two mixing sticks as spacers and then floxed this outboard end rid to the spar. I’ve used a two ply BID tape and the EZ-Epoxy which is fuel safe, the brown stuff. I’d also bumped the other side rib during the wing move. I stripped the tape of that side and redid it. I’m always telling people to be careful, this time it was my own fault. An easy fix.

Note that black line on the LE and on the outside of the rib. This is an important datum, where the wing begins and at W.L. 17.4. I’m hoping that this is all I need to build the strakes and the wing doesn’t have to stay on. It can’t, my room is too small!

The next task was to get some of the team back in. We removed the left wing, stuck it back on my wing shelf and reversed the fuselage. Wow I have my workspace back!

In preparation for the spar work I felt having the fuselage stable and level might be worthwhile. The pants and wheels came off and I used the boards you can see here to get it level side to side. The car jack with a block of wood and a phone book as a ‘soft surface’ is what I use in the middle of the main gear.

The heat shield prevents me from jacking up the wheels with everything still on. I’ll have to look at that and maybe make a fitting for changing tires easily. Ongoing maintenance is always on my mind.

Here we are level across and I got the same sort of thing on the longerons. Mind you those digital levels are pretty sensitive. Hold you head sideways and they change 0.05 of a degree.

I couldn’t find my previous plastic template so I had to make another one. I wanted to recheck my lines.

Can you see what I had to do here (below pic)? The canopy needed a trim to match the future strake curve. That’s where the plastic template was really useful. It is a lot easier to trim the canopy frame now than after the thing is built. It will need a fine tune but we have the curve and its all going to plan.

Finally again I needed help to get the canopy off and in its box. Of course it no longer fits the box, its grown a few inches in length now the frame is on. I just ‘adjusted’ the box at the bottom. Its still going to be a useful table/jig.