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New Rudder Ribs

June 12, 2022 by Mike Leave a Comment

Continuing on from my last post of my router table rehab, and tying up loose ends. The rudder has been another loose end that has been dragging on for many many years too long. If you go back in previous posts in the build log, you’ll find where I screwed up the rudder ribs trying […]

Horizontal Stabilizer Assembly Stowed

May 22, 2022 by Mike Leave a Comment

Just a quick update for today, as I got the horizontal stabilizer assembly stowed on the upper wall of the garage. I’m really happy to finally, after years of on and off work, to get this assembly off the shop floor. Now I have room to get the F1 Rocket wing jigs set up. I […]

Rib forming blocks

March 14, 2022 by admin Leave a Comment

The project for today was to whip up some rudder ribs forming blocks. As I’ve learned in my past attempts of trying to form these rudder ribs, that accuracy of the forming blocks prime importance to getting a good finished product. I began the process by getting some 3/4 inch plywood. Looking back plywood wasn’t […]

Fitting elevators to horizontal stabilizer

January 4, 2022 by admin Leave a Comment

In this post, I’m finally arriving to a huge milestone where I’m finally mating the elevators to the horizontal stabilizer. Again, in this post, this process wasn’t accomplished in an afternoon. It took me the better part of 2 months of working on and off trying to stay motivated through all the filing needed to […]

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