Donovan Aluminum Bonnet – Part 2 – Lime Rock or BUST!!!

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We found out that the whole RH side was not only kinked and bent in half, but the metal on the two sides of the kink was flattened out. I ended up completely reshaping the RH side of the power bulge to get the proper curvature back in – THREE times! Then it was time to move on to the RH forward quarter of the center section. The part that makes this tricky is this big tear for one, and also the reverse curve in the outer edge – you know, that “valley” that runs up the sides of the bonnets just inside the wing to center section flanges…

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