Dang…when the wings are out of the jig, you think you’re almost done with them. Well, friends, that ain’t the case. Next on the agenda is all the stuff that goes on the back of the wings – aileron brackets, aileron gap seals, and flap hinge braces. First came the aileron brackets. These gadgets take a little mental effort to figure out how everything fits together. Fortunately, Van’s included a complete set of drawings in the bracket subkit – they depict the brackets for both wings, and not just the left side as usual for their drawings.

After doing some basic edge-finishing on these things, I clecoed them together then clecoed them to the spar. Wherever possible I tried to do all the match-drilling with the bracket in place, just in case the alignment shifted when the brackets were clecoed to the spar. Here are the left wing’s brackets clecoed in place.
I neglected to take any pictures of the flap brace and aileron seals – sorry. Just use your imagination, or keep reading for pictures in a later installment.