My progress for this evening included lots of filing on the horizontal stabilizer doubler (HS-3101). When I had the 0.125 piece of aluminum cut, it was purposely made to be slightly oversized. As you can see in the photo below, it doesn’t quite fit within the rear spar. Three hours later…and sore hands! Well, maybe […]
Horizontal Stabilizer Doubler Template
Today I’m working on making Rocket mods to strengthen the horizontal stabilizer and I started with making a doubler template. Horizontal Stab – Rear Spar Doubler Template First I put the horizontal stabilizer rear spars together, attached with the 0.125″ stiffeners which are part of the original RV-8 tail components. For the template I started with […]