After about 6 hours of work, I got the left fairing box nearly complete. It mounts on the fuselage, filling the space between the fuselage and left flaperon. This component is one of the more difficult metal forming tasks I've done so far -- in part because I have only a small, rudimentary bending brake. The fairing box is made from a pre-formed triangular rib, covered by a skin fabricated from bare sheet metal that has a number of complex bends, some of which had to be done quite literally by hand. In short, there were a dozen places to easily screw this up, but miraculously it turned out well, the first time! There's a separate page of detailed, annotated photos showing how this was done, for those who may be interested.

Here are a couple photos showing the end result of today's fabrication work. The first photo shows the outboard face of the triangular rib that goes next to the flaperon, and the single skin that starts at the lower left corner of the photo and wraps all the way around the triangular rib, finally tucking back under the first part of the skin. The second photo is a rear view of the side that goes onto the fuselage. The 3/4" flange will attach to the fuselage. Of course, it still needs priming of mating surfaces & riveting, and mounting onto the fuselage, but this is a big "whew!" moment. Hopefully, the second one will go as well. It's cross fingers time.