Today I’m continuing with the assembly of the left elevator. Before I get to riveting there is a bit of work that is still required on this elevator. Most notably is building the trim tab, however before I get there I need to do some more work to final size all the rivet holes and […]
Right elevator skin drilling and prepwork
As the right elevator is starting to come together, today I started by looking at some of the remaining parts to begin planning ahead, in particular, the leading edges and balance weight assembly. The leading edge skins needed to be trimmed to length, so I started with the layout. This was a bit tricky as […]
Right Elevator Spar Riveting
Finally I’m starting to get some visual progress on the right elevator. Today I began by prepping and priming the elevator spar parts. View Post After priming I riveted the nutplates. Before I started riveting, I placed a strip of electrical tape at each of the rib locations. These won’t be riveted until a later […]
Right Elevator Spar Final Drilling
The task for today is to finish the final drilling of the right elevator. The final drilling is for the elevator hinge attach bolts and also drilling the nutplates that will fasten the bolts as the internal structure of the elevator will not be accessible once riveted together. Up to this point, the elevator spar […]