RV hopeful Dave Blair came to check out the project and help rivet on the left wing's outer bottom skin. He got the hang of the rivet gun pretty quickly. By dinnertime we were cranking the rivets out one after another.
Don't be fooled – this is a lot less comfortable than it looks:
We got it about three quarters finished. I'll pester Mary to help me drive the last few dozen rivets sometime this week.
We put about the same number of dings in this wing as the other one that got riveted last week. Meanwhile, the pre-riveted part of my quickbuild wings have exactly one small surface imperfection that I've been able to detect. How in the world do the quickbuild factory people do such a flawless job? Do they have some kind of ultra precise robotic rivet-driving laser beam out there in the Philippines?