Today I will continue to progress with trimming the skins of the elevators. I again began with trimming the trailing edge skin, inboard end. When trimming, I cut as close to the line as I dare. As you can see below, there is still a bit of trimming to do. I finished this up on […]
Elevator Trimming
Getting back to working on the elevators, the first thing that I’m going to do is some necessary trimming of the skins, as they were cut quite generously. As seen in the picture below, as the elevators are currently mounted on the horizontal stab, I decided that it was best to remove the trailing edge […]
Elevators – Out of Storage!
After a long, long break from doing any work on this Stewart S-51 project, today it was time to do something. Things in life have settled down enough that I’m now getting a wee bit more time available to get the airplane projects back underway. The job for today was to at least get the […]
Elevator Trim Tab Trimming
This evening was spent trimming the elevator trim tab skin. The skin came formed, however it was too long in both width and length, so lots of trimming is needed. As always, this kind of work is slow and steady but the results are worth it. Previously the trim tab we trimmed and filed down […]