Building out of order

After building the left wing skeleton the next step is to... build the right wing skeleton!  Makes sense, right?  I'm going to go out of order by building the flaperons next, and this post explains why.  See my work area is a 4'x8' sheet of plywood cut lengthwise and fastened onto an old bedroom dresser with piano hinges and screws.  Castoring wheels were fixed to the feet so I can move it around.  It's been a good low-cost work table solution for building and skinning things like 15-foot airplane wings.  In the later stages of the build when the big parts start to come togther (fuselage, tailcone, landing gear, etc.) I'll be able to free up necessary airplane storage space by donating it to the next RV builder newbie or just getting rid of it.

In the interim, and somewhat unintentionally, it has also been the place where I've stored the wing ribs, skins and parts.  Smaller parts, such as wing lights and various brackets go in the drawers, hidden and out of the way.  Really small parts such as nuts, bolts, rivets, drill bits, and the like go into small parts tray racks on loan from Mr. B.

By reading ahead in the plans, particularly the sections on skinning the wings (Section 17), closing out the wing tips (17-05 & -06), and installing the landing and position lights (Section 40), it's become obvious to me that I'm going to need to clear off the table for the upcoming building tasks.  By doing the flaperons (flaps + ailerons = flaperons) next and subsequently storing them elsewhere and then doing the right wing skeleton, I can reduce the loose parts count leaving pretty much just the wing skins (which I can probably store on top of the left wing skeleton hanging from the ceiling), and a few parts for the wing tips thus restoring the work table back to its original utility to facilitate the skinning and wing lights installation.  So that's the reason for going out of order.