Stewart 51 Hangar

Building Planes That Don't Look Like The Box They Came In

  • The Airplane Builder
  • S-51 Info
    • S-51 Specs
    • S-51 Build Tips
    • S-51 Build Costs
  • S-51 Build Log
  • F1 Rocket Hangar
  • About
    • Disclosure
  • Resources
  • Ask Mike|Contact

New Rudder Ribs

June 12, 2022 by Mike Leave a Comment

Continuing on from my last post of my router table rehab, and tying up loose ends. The rudder has been another loose end that has been dragging on for many many years too long. If you go back in previous posts in the build log, you’ll find where I screwed up the rudder ribs trying […]

Router Table Rehab

June 11, 2022 by Mike Leave a Comment

The next stage of my S-51 build is to continue to tie up more loose ends in parts that have been sitting partially finished for way too long. The the job on-deck is to finish the rudder…however before I get there I need to rehab my router table as I need it to to help […]

Rib forming blocks

March 14, 2022 by admin Leave a Comment

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 […]

Elevator Hinge Layout Tool

May 1, 2016 by Mike Leave a Comment

  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 […]

Next Page »
Profile Photo 1 Hello - My name is Mike and I'm a true believer that if you can imagine something, it's just a matter of bringing it into reality.

Categories

  • Community
  • Control System
  • Elevators
  • Empennage
  • Fuselage
  • Horizontal Stabilizer
  • Landing Gear
  • Main Gear
  • Main Spar
  • Rudder
  • Tools
  • Uncategorized
  • Wings
  • Workshop

Tags

7006-8 Actuator Airplanes Are Cool Community Downlock Elevator Empennage Forks Fuselage Hinges Horizontal Stabilizer Jig Landing Gear Laser Level Lighting Main Gear Main Spar Nutplate Oshkosh Parts Parts Shipment Retract Rudder Rudder Spar Steering Box Tailwheel Throttle Quadrant Tools Trim Tab Uplock Vertical Fin Welding Wings Workbench Workshop

Copyright © 2025 · Beautiful Pro Theme on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in