Smitty's RV-9A from Van's Aircraft

RV-9A: Project Entry

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Time to start riveting the leading edge assembly together
Well, not yet. I still have to debur and dimple all of the ribs and the wing skin. All the instructions say to do at this point is "Rivet the Leading Edge Assembly". So it's time for me use my poetic license and do my dimpling the way I want to do it. I’m going to leave the whole assembly in the wooden cradle and take the ribs out one at a time to dimple them and dimple the skin with the pop-rivet dimplers. That way I won’t have to go through the "clecoing the ribs to the skin wrestling match" again. Here I removed the end rib with the splice strip and deburred and dimples the holes.

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