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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 […]

Elevator torque tubes

September 23, 2021 by admin Leave a Comment

One last task before I get to fitting the elevators to the horizontal stabilizer. Today I’m going to finish the fitting of the elevator torque tube assemblies to each elevator. You might notice that these are now a light grey color (in previous posts they were painted black). I recently sent these out for powder […]

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