Category: Vertical Stab
Attaching Some Empennage Tips with Screws
Whoa, today was a fun day in the shop. After yesterdays matchdrilling of the elevator tips to the elevators, I decided to keep pressing ahead…
Finished Vertical Stabilizer
My squeezer sucks, so I needed to wait until there was a good time to bang out some rivets on saturday. Midway through the date,…
VS Skin Prep and Riveting
I didn’t get any pictures of the boring skin prep, but I deburred both sides of EVERY hole in the skin, dimpled, then used some…
Dinner Dimpling
After some dinner, I headed back out to the airplane factory (garage) a to make a little more progress. 2.5 more hours tonight with 8…
Breakfast & Lunch Rear Spar Riveting
The lovely thing about working from home is that I can buck (bang) some rivets out before breakfast. But be warned. Don’t buck them before…
Started Riveting VS Rear Spar
I really wanted to see (and show) some immediate progress today, so I grabbed the rear spar components to start prepping. Generally, that means deburring…
Matchdrilled Vertical Stabilizer
So one unintended consequence of having built some of these assemblies before is that there are very few questions about how things work. Arrogantly, I…