In 2020 and 2021 I did some work on the wing tips. Because it was super annoying, working so many hours on the wing tips I postponed the work. When I started working with resin and fiberglass on the landing gear spats I decided to finish the wing tips now as well. So this blog is about the remaining work in 2020, 2021 and recent weeks.
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Category: Tips
Nav lights doublers
Improvement of the backing plates for the nav lights.
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Wingtips fiberglass – 10
The right wingtip needed some more filler to perfectly fit to the wing and I added some reinforcement fiberglass cloth.
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Wingtips fiberglass – 9
A while ago I added a reinforcement strip on the top side of the left wingtip, the bottom was on the todo list.
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Wingtips fiberglass – 8
After having 2 symmetrical wing tips it was time to perfectly align them and drill the holes in the right tip.
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Wingtips fiberglass – 7
Since I removed quite some gel coat I sprayed the left tip with epoxy primer.
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Wingtips fiberglass – 6
Past weeks I continued to work on the right wingtip to make sure both tip are symmetrical.
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Wingtips fiberglass – 5
The wingtips should be mounted symmetrical to avoid a heavy wing. Unfortunately both wing tips are not the same size which needed to be corrected.
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Wingtips fiberglass – 4
More fiberglass work, it takes quite some time because the resin has to cure for 24 hours. So this work has been done during the past couple of days.
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Wingtips fiberglass – 3
Because the bottom didn’t had a nice transition between the fiberglass tip and the wing skin anymore I had to fix that.
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