March 27, 2007 ...  I spent a few hours in the shop today getting a few more parts fabricated for the wings. My goal is to first fabricate, pre-drill, and debur all of the parts needed to build the wings prior to wing assembly. Today, I started the aileron bellcrank brackets; deburred the aileron bellcranks (provided in the airframe kit), drew in the cuts I need to make on the bell crank brackets, and chamfered the wing root attach blocks. My wife bought me a 10 inch disk sander for my birthday which worked extremely well for the chamfers, and promises to be a great help on other parts in the future.

April 5, 2007 ...  Sometimes an hour here and an hour there is all I can get in the shop. But those hours add up to considerable progress over time. Today, I finished drilling the right aileron bellcrank  pivot bracket, alodined the bellcrank and brackets, and fabricated the 1/4 inch phenolic spacer that goes between the brackets.  I then pressed in the bronze bushings and temporarily assembled everything (less the bellcrank). The phenolic material and bronze bushings are provided in the hardware kit supplied by Wicks Aircraft Supply.

April 9-10, 2007 ...  I spent the last couple days finishing some parts that were sitting half finished on my bench. I completed the left aileron bellcrank pivot bracket, and spacers that the wing mount blocks set against, and I did some more deburring and clean-up work on the spar caps. I also match drilled the root rib brackets as called for in the plans. I did that by measuring and pre-drilling the holes on one bracket. Then, I clamped on the second bracket and carefully lined everything up. I held the whole assembly squarely to a block on my drill press table and used the pre-drilled holes as a guide on the first bracket to drill the holes on the second bracket.