We were away this weekend in Gainesville for the gator homecoming festivities and game. The game was a but closer in outcome than I like but my Gator's prevailed.

Late last week I started framing up the other wing with ribs, sheeting, etc and tonight I flipped the whole thing over and added the top spar. Tomorrow I will add the shear webs and wing tip. I flip the wing over so the glue remains in the spar/rib connection and forms a nice fillet. To ensure there is no twist being built in since the wing is no longer resting on the bottom flat part of the rib, I pin down the top spar and take the two pieces of aileron stock and wedge them under the leaing and trailing curvatures using a level to verify all the ribs are level front to back and the wing is level left to right. As a tip, i have long used the wooden coffee sticks from starbucks to make fillets, they have a nice small radius. Popscicle sticks work well when a large fillet is needed.

I was thinking more about the engine mounting on the drive home today. I realized I cannot rotate the engine 90 degrees as i did wth say my 4 star. 40 (RIP [&o] ) taildragger as the nose gear will be in the way of the muffler. So I'm still going to rotate the engine maybe 75 degrees or so. I will need to do some trial and error ands see how close I can get the muffler to gear w/out it interfering.