10/29/2021 – 1.0 hours
The first step for the wings involves preparing the main spars for the later steps. The spars are supplied mostly assembled, which I am very thankful for. Some of those rivets are huge – well beyond the ability of my shop to set properly! Most of the remaining work on the spars includes match-drilling and final-drilling several holes, riveting nutplates to the spars, and attaching some aileron brackets. The plans for this step are very clear, and go into a lot of detail on how to identify the right and left spars and how they are oriented (top, front, aft, inboard, outboard, …). I noted the orientation and identification on a piece of tape on each spar. I didn't see any issues in the plans or anything on the Van's website like service bulletins or changes. Time to jump in the deep end!