Nose rib cut out

Unfortunately I don't have a photo of the jig but it's really pretty simple. I cut out a notch in a piece of scrap plywood and centered the nose rib on it. Then I nailed down pieces around the rib template to secure the part. Once I took the template off I smoothed out the notch and the pattern was ready to go.

I took each nose rib and put it on the router template, penciled the shape, took it off, rough cut it, put it back on, and routered it out.

They turned out flawless!

Once that was completed the next step, according to the plans and builders manual, is to glue up cap strip to the upper and lower portion of the nose rib. This is very unusual compared to most airplanes, usually all the cap strip is glues up in one step.

So I pretty much drove around with them on service calls thinking and planning my next move.