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
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Elevator riveting, continued
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
Short and sticky, again!
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
Close to finishing up the elevators
Got a lot done today. The ProSeal had cured for the trailing edges, so I peeled the elevators off of the angle iron and got
The elevators are DONE!
Mark another one off the list. The elevators are done (for the most part.) There was a lot going on today, but between the family
On to the tail cone…
Tonight marks the first night of construction on the tail cone. As this is the last section of the empenage kit for the RV-10, today
More tail cone bulkheads
Stiffeners and Longerons
Tonight started out with some exciting (not really) deburring of the tail cone j-channel stiffeners. They are long and awkward, but I was able to
Tail cone taking shape
I started the night with a bunch of flat parts, and now, there is a pretty big aluminum box on my work bench!
Tail cone assembly continued
We had a lot of other stuff going on today, but I was able to squeeze in an hour and a half on the -10