Today, work continues to continue on the elevator hinges. It seems like this work has been ongoing for a long long time and I’m eager to start to move forward on some new work. A bit of visual progress was made by getting the elevator ribs drilled and clecoed to the elevator spars, as shown […]
Elevator Center Hinges
The workload for today is focused on finishing the left and right elevator center hinges. In the last work session I screwed up the hole on one of these hinge brackets (not drilled on center) and as a result I need to make a new bracket. Elevator Center Hinge Construction I thought I was being […]
Elevator Hinge Layout Tool
Elevator Hinge Layout Tool In this post I’m going to show you what we did to make a tool to help us ensure that we have the elevator hinge bracket bolt holes in proper alignment. The alignment for the elevator hinges is completely based upon the center bellcrank. Because the bellcrank is a machined […]
Horizontal Stabilizer End Hinges Continued
The work session for today focused on finishing up the horizontal stabilizer end hinges. Shown in the second picture is the doubler I had to make because the Czech’s who made the fast-build horizontal stabilizer drilled 2 holes in the wrong location. The doubler was made to correct these holes and provide additional strength to […]