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Horizontal Stabilizers, Elevators...and vacation days! 04/18/03 - Today was my fifth and final vacation day for the week and after today's work, I can say I feel highly satisfied with how my my time was spent! I managed to work in the shop for nearly twenty-five hours and got a LOT accomplished on the project, but more importantly (to me), went fishing on Tuesday -AND- today with my dad! In between, we had plumbing work done, I sold a couple of sets of coins at auction, we accomplished our normal gardening and yard work, I got to spend some quality time with Marilyn when we took Alyssa to the zoo, played around with Kipper, Mirfy and Mackenzie, got a haircut, bought a new pair of work shoes, got my car serviced and last but not least, put a new set of tires on the Rivy! All in all, very much like I had hoped for it to go! Following are a few photos of today's work. End ribs are clecoed to the inside of the horizontal stabilizers:
Each end rib gets a set of three small angled braces installed to keep the rib from twisting when the fabric is attached:
The stabilizers also have compression ribs installed to help form the inverted airfoil (right side):
Left side stabilizer after installing the compression ribs:
Both stabilizers are back in their positions and the right side elevator has been hung for prefit:
Left side elevator also in place:
Ok, now it's -really- starting to look like a tail!
I'm not sure how many hours I have left to complete this section, but I still need to install the trim tab assembly, elevator push-pull tube and yoke, rudder horns and I'm sure a bit more that I can't remember right away but the tail section has really come along quickly in my opinion, although it probably has much to do with spending more than a couple of hours at a time actually working on something... More updates soon... |
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Last Update: 04/18/2003 |
