Beginning Rudder Construction February 27, 2012March 6, 2012 Ed 1 Comment Empennage, Rudder, RV10 Build Since I can’t proceed with the VS final assemble until I the primer arrives, I put the VS parts away and began on the rudder. Read more
Rudder Construction – cont. February 28, 2012February 29, 2012 Ed 2 Comments Empennage, Rudder, RV10 Build After the initial prep of most of the rudder parts yesterday, today was the initial assembly. This involved building the stiffiners, working the rudder horn, Read more
Rudder: More deburring, a little counter-sinking, and a little slip up March 1, 2012March 2, 2012 Ed 0 Comment Empennage, Rudder, RV10 Build Colleen was nice enough to come out to the airplane factory and help me do some deburring tonight. Just like all the other parts before, Read more
Rudder: Last bit of prep March 2, 2012March 2, 2012 Ed 0 Comment Empennage, Rudder, RV10 Build Today was the first day my father was able to come out and help get us closer to having a flying plane! It isn’t the Read more
Baby got back (riveting) March 5, 2012March 5, 2012 Ed 1 Comment Empennage, Rudder, RV10 Build Got a lot done in a fairly short amount of time tonight. I got all the rudder stiffeners back riveted in. They are shot in Read more
Short but sticky: It’s rudder Pro-Seal time! March 6, 2012March 6, 2012 Ed 0 Comment Empennage, Rudder, RV10 Build Tonight was a quick one at only one hour, but that was because we were time limited with one of the materials we were working Read more
The rudder is done! March 8, 2012March 9, 2012 Ed 2 Comments Empennage, Rudder, RV10 Build I almost didn’t go out to work on the plane tonight because I was pretty nervous about messing up the rudder trailing edge. If it’s Read more