In other excellent news... the wing is done!

Well, a little assembly and some minor cosmetic touch ups and she'll be finished until she's due to grow a belly. Mmm... maybe those smooth round tips have some effect on, eh... pregnancy!? What do you think Pete? Sorry guys - I'll stay focused.

I won't go through the control surface routine again as I pretty much did that exhaustively with the stab. Suffice it to say, that I laminated two 1" x 20" sheets of 1/4" balsa and attached basswood on the trailing edge at the center line. Then shaped to contour. Instead of using basswood, which is nice and firm but will dent if hit hard enough, I used mahogany on the wing tip TE's as well as on the rudder and fin post TE. A little heavier but bulletproof. Actually sandpaper doesn't seem to do anything to it. The paper just wears down and the wood remains the same [8D]

The approach to building the control surfaces is labour and time intensive (compared to simply sanding a sheet of the right thickness to contour) but is worth the effort. The surfaces are extremely hard and warp free. Each aileron came in weighing 10g (0.3 oz)! I guess that's the weight of an HS-55. I may just go this route from now on on all builds.

I also got some work done on the fin and rudder. The rudder and fin post are sanded to shape. The fin still needs more work but it'll wait until the fuse is complete as a dorsal fin needs to be added and shaped as well.

And now, for some pics...

David.