On with the wings. Temperlates were cut from 1/16" ply drawn around the original kit supplied balsa wing ribs. Again high density foam was used for the cores, cut with the aid of my father.

Two liteply false ribs were let into each wing core either side of the retracts. These offer more strength for the retracts, as I my flying site is a well mowed grass stip. We all know retracts don't always fair well to grass strips ! A liteply box with hardwood beam mount is also let into the core for the retract mount.

The aileron servos boxes and wires were hollowed into the core with a small hot wire cutter. I drew onto tracing paper where they were located in the wing, as once the wing is skinned, tring to locate them can be troublesome.

As with the tail, the wing cores were skinned with the kit supplied 1/16" balsa and vacume bagged.

One thing that struck me, was the wings were not as light as I would have liked. This was due to the high density foam, also the balsa kit supplied skins were a little heavier than if I were to use contest balsa. Despite this, I proceeded on to cutting the retracts and aileron locations lining the retracts and boxes with 1/16" balsa.

The wings halfs were then joined together. With two incidence gagues at each wing tip, the wing halfs were out of aline by 1/16" at the root, something I could live with.

The ailerons were cut out of the cores, faced with medium 1/4" balsa. I was kind of amused that a foam balsa skinned aileron weighed exactly the same as the kit supplied preshapped solid balsa aileron. The solid balsa kit ailerons were used instead of the foam ailerons, as the aileron horns would be a solid mounting.

Finishing the wing required the epoxy bandage around the centre section, balsa wing tips and wing mount to be glued in place.

The all up weight of the wing without retacts and servo is 738g ( 26 oz ) Humm.... I think I should make another wing []