Today there isn’t much in the way of build progress, however I’m getting a little inspiration from a bit of visual progress. It’s really nice seeing the rudder coming together and I think you too will be excited to see some things that make the S-51 so cool. In the picture below, you can see […]

Today I’m going to start working on the access panels of the rudder where the trim tab control mechanism will eventually be mounted. To start, here are some pictures showing a bit more detail of the lower end of the rudder with the side skins attached. On the rudder, not all of the rivet holes […]

The task for today’s building session is to work on fitting the gussets onto the trim tab attach rib. These work to help provide stiffness to the structure around the trim tab cutout. In a previous build session, I cut out and made a set of new gussets, as shown below. As shown below, I […]

The rudder assembly (part 3) post today is starting off with aligning and drilling the trailing edge in place. I started by using a straight edge to ensure that both the upper and lower segments were in alignment, and adjusted the pieces until I was satisfied. Once I was happy with the alignment of the […]