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DAVE AGAR'S Great Planes Kit-Build McDonnell Douglas F-15 Page 9
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the rear sheeting and the spar joiner on the front spars. This is a 1/64 inch piece of veneer and will be covered by the sheeting.
The next step is the leading edge sheeting. I am using one piece of  3 inch wide 1/16 inch thick balsa for each of the sheeting pieces. I needed to cut off a part of the sheeting and then glue it onto the edge making it almost 5 and 1/2 inches wide at the inner edge. I glued the leading edge with wood glue. I then soaked the sheeting with my water and ammonia mix and bent it to match the ribs. I then went back and applied wood glue to all the rib tops and the main spar. I then taped it all down and let it sit overnight.
Here's what it looks like when both leading edges are done on the top side.
I am now ready to turn the wing over and add the other spar and spar braces and then the remaining sheeting as well as get the wing ready to mate to the fuselage.
I have flipped the wing over and have installed the rear spar and the shear ribs in between all the ribs. This I did with my wood glue as there is quite a lot of surface to glue together.
I then glued on the top side front edge sheeting with my wood glue and taped it all in place to dry. I have also installed the cap strips on top of the wing ribs with CA.
After all the glue is dryed, I have mounted the wing onto the fuselage to check for proper fit.
I have test fitted the wing dowel in the front of the wing to make sure it is not lifting the wing out of the saddle and will glue it in with epoxy once I am sure that the wing is fitted into the saddle correctly.
Now that the wing is on and the dowel is in place, I got it ready to drill the hole for the wing bolt. This plane is using one 1/4 x 20 wing bolt coming up from the bottom of the fuselage and screwing into a 1/4 x 20 blind nut mounted in the wing plate. It is important to make sure that the wing is centered on the fuselage before drilling any holes and then once the wing is where it needs to be it is taped in position so as not to move.
It is also important to make sure that I drilled the hole in the center of both the wing plate and fuselage plate. The hole is 1/4 inch in diameter, however I drilled it in steps using 3 smaller drill bits before actually drilling the 1/4 inch hole.
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