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  • Elevator

    Tonight I prepped and primed the skin stiffeners for the elevators, also got the trim servo parts primed and riveted. Not much tonight but still making progress.       I cleaned all the parts prior to priming. 

  • Back at it again! 

    After what seems like a couple weeks of very little work on the plane, my uncle came over to help me out and we spent about 3 hours today doing some edge finishing and deburring and surface prep on the elevator stiffeners.  Once that was done I countersunk the holes for the plate-nuts and riveted…

  • More elevator work

    Tonight I spent about half hour prepping the trim servo mounting provisions. Not much to show, but I dimpled the #6 screw holes and prepped the surface for priming. 

  • Continued elevators 

    This evening I finished match drilling and dimpling the elevators and elevator stiffeners, no pictures but pretty routine work. Tomorrow I’ll edge finish and deburr the parts in preparation for priming and riveting. 

  • Finished my last hour of IFR 

    Today I went up with my instructor to get my last hour under the hood before my checkride. Beautiful weather over half moon bay, couldn’t ask for a better way to start the year. Now to finish those elevators… 

  • Began elevators

    Today I cut all the stiffeners to length and clecoed them to the skins. Only spent about an hour today but making a start is key.    

  • Finished rudder

    Today I woke up early and got the trailing edge of the rudder riveted and leading edge rolled. It was good to experience this solo because it was a true test of workmanship and luckily I ended up with a straight trailing edge and round leading edge.     Here you can see that there’s…

  • Quick update

    I thought I’d give a quick update on stuff, I won’t be back in the shop until next week, but I did take off the aluminum angles on the rudder trailing edge, and it turned out perfectly straight. Now I just have to rivet it with some double flush rivets and then I can mark…

  • Riveted rudder

    Today I cleaned and primed all the rudder parts, then assembled, riveted and glued the trailing edge. I also received the ship date for my quick build wings and fuse.     I’ve got nearly 4 months to finish the elevators. I hope I don’t run out of time 😉   Here you can see the…

  • Continued rudder

    Today I dimpled the rudder structure and skins in preparation for priming.    Here you can see the dimpling of the skins trailing edge. I then dimpled the other skin and called it a day, I’ll prime the internal parts and begin riveting tomorrow night hopefully.