Category: Empennage

  I had to bust out my non-existent woodworking skills tonight. They were needed to build the clamp/jogs for the trim tabs. The trim tab on

Got back in the shop tonight and managed to knock out most of the fabrication of the elevator trim tabs. There isn’t much to them.

Another few hours spent on the -10, this time deburring all the holes in the trim tab parts. Then there was some dimpling and countersinking.

Today, I turned this pile of parts: Into this pile of parts:    Everything is all ready for riveting.

Tonight, I was able to begin riveting the piles of elevator parts together! I began by assembling the tip ribs and their skins. This was

More riveting on the elevators tonight. Going into this project, I always thought about how much time all this riveting was going to take… but

I decided to try something new tonight. I had a Google “Hang Out” going while I was working on the elevators. Google Hangout is basically

After my little health issue, I was able to put some more time into riveting the elevator. The task was to rivet the elevator skins

The elevators didn’t seem that complicated when I began, but they are really taking a good bit of time! Tonight was spent finishing up the

Tonight was another pro seal night. This is the stuff that I used when building the rudder. Well it’s used to hold everything together in