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 […]
Horizontal Stabilizer – Rear Spar Riveting
Now that the elevators, trim tab, vertical fin and rudder are all assembled as far as I can before the “Pre-Cover” Inspection (Canadian regulatory requirement), I’m finally getting to the home stretch of the empennage. All that I have left to do is assemble the horizontal stablizer. It’s been a while, but some of the […]
Trim Tab and Hinge
The work in this post was done during the week of March 01 – 06, 2020. The work was just too scattered to warrant a single post for each hour here and there of building. Interspersed was also quite a bit of time reviewing the plans and other builders websites to figure out how to […]
Update: Oct 2018 – Feb 2020
Hello Everyone, I’m still alive and kicking. I apologize for the long break in my blogging, and building updates. I certainly didn’t anticipate for the break to be this long. The good news is, you haven’t missed any building progress, because I haven’t done any building (well, not airplane building). I’ll explain more below. Back […]