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
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
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 […]
Elevator riveting – part 1
In the build session today I’m finally getting started on riveting the elevators. The elevators are riveted from the trailing edge to the leading edge, where they are then closed out with the leading edge skins. As shown below, I have the trailing edge skin clecoed in place. I decided that the riveting to be […]