Today, I got the wing spars out on the workbench and I started to identify the orientation (upper/lower/fore/aft). As the wing spars were built in the Van’s factory jigs, all the holes are predrilled and some are even reamed for close tolerance bolts. Since the spar has comes with all this work accomplished, each piece […]
Torque Seal Issues…
During my last building session, I was able to get the center elevator hinge bolted on the rear spar. However, at the time I was not able to torque the bolts because I didn’t have any torque seal to identify that this bolt task was complete. In my years of training as an Aircraft Maintenance […]
Riveting Horizontal Stab Nose Ribs – HS-707
Carrying on with the final assembly of the horizontal stabilizer, this evening I continued with the next few steps in the assembly manual for riveting the HS-707 nose ribs in place. For this, you first start by laying the horizontal skins, top-side down. Then cleco and rivet the HS-707 to the top side of the […]
Horizontal Stabilizer Spars – Riveting Completed
Today I wanted to finish up all the riveting on the horizontal stabilizer spars. After my last building session, all that remains on the rear spar is bolting on the center hinge assembly, and 2 rivets on either side. One thing that was overlooked about this whole thing was that had only pilot drilled these […]