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Torque Seal Issues…

March 12, 2020 by admin Leave a Comment

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

March 11, 2020 by admin Leave a Comment

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

March 9, 2020 by admin Leave a Comment

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

March 7, 2020 by admin Leave a Comment

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 […]

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