After cutting landing light holes in both leading edges and fitting the AoA probes in the left leading edge, it’s time to debur, dimple prep and prime the leading edge skins, landing light parts, joint plates, and a lot of other miscellaneous parts like the inboard leading edge ribs. So…after deburring and dimpling – not very visually exciting, so no picture – that means the obligatory wash/degrease/scuff/etch process.

Here are the landing light brackets and the inboard LE ribs drying after being alumiprepped.

LE parts prep

And here’s everything after priming, and after back-riveting nutplates to one of the W-423 joint plates that fasten the leading edges to the tanks.

AoA port holes

My goal is to get both leading edges ready for riveting in the next week.