Yours truly standing next to the awesome looking Wing Spars that Van's assembles for you. They are gold anodized for corrosion protection. Makes them almost look like a gold shipment from Ft. Knox, doesn't it? :) The factory assembles these spars for each builder because of the large size of the rivets used, which require a special rivet gun which is quite expensive to purchase. The spars are made from layered, heavy gauge aluminum. As many others have said before me, when the wings are done, these beautiful pieces of workmanship will be hidden from view for the life of the airplane, never to be seen again. Maybe if we use plexiglass for the wing skins we can change that!!
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