I moved my finished right wing out of the shop and into the hangar. And while I had a couple of guys to help and a platform scale handy we weighed the completed wing.
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It weighed 66 pounds without the flap or aileron. This is with the extended range tanks. I wonder how that compares with other wings?
And I made progress on the left wing.
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Both top and bottom are covered now and, though not shown in the image, now on my rotating fixture and ready to start rib stitching. I made a couple of provisions to keep the #1 rib from pulling as the fabric shrunk and that seemed to work well with minimal distortion.
I've since weighed the unpainted flap and aileron at 4.6 and 6.2 pounds. So that is a total of 76.8 pounds and painting of the aluminum skins will add a little weight.
A few years a go I weighed a PA-18 wing after spraying and with all parts; tank, tank cover, wingtip light and cable it weighed 99.5 pounds. So this Carbon Cub wing with a 4 gallon greater capcity fuel tank is more than 20 pounds lighter than a comparable PA-18 wing. And times two wings that's 40+ pounds lighter. Impressive beacuse original Piper wings are considered to be lighter usually than the clone wings now available.