A sign of progress

Guess what... I finally started "working" on the project tonight.. Over the past month, I've spent 2 weeks in Asia, one weekend in Galveston, one weekend working on the Sidewinder, and last weekend I moved the wings out of my garage to the airport. Finally I have room in the garage, and time to start building..

From Aileron

Tonight I layed up 1 layer of fiberglass over 1/4" foam to start building the aileron ribs. Before tonight, I figured it would take me 1 week to get the aileron complete.. Well, I'm starting to see why it takes so long to build these airplanes.. I spent 1 hr laying up 1 layer of glass.. I now need to let that sit overnight, and do the same to the other side of the foam.. Let that sit.. Cut out the ribs, create cap-strips (essentially mounting strips for the ribs), let that sit... Fiberglass one half of the rib in.. Let that sit.. and so on... Looks like I'll still be working on this aileron for a few weeks! At least I've started making forward progress on the project.