Today I started work on adding a skin stiffener to the upper end of the rudder, which is similar to the elevator skin stiffeners. The picture below is a diagram of where this doubler is located. The details for this doubler were provided to me by Mark Frederick and I started with doing some basic […]
Rudder Stiffener Riveting Redux
I recently received the replacement rudder skin for the one that I messed up a few weeks back, while riveting on the stiffener angles. While riveting this one, I made darn sure that the back riveting plate was under where I was riveting. Everything was going great, until I got to the trailing edge. I got […]
Rudder Spar Riveting
This evening I riveted the rudder hinge mounting brackets and reinforcing plates. One item of caution here is just to remember that you will be using longer rivets than are called for in the RV-8 plans. So make sure you check each rivet for the correct length before you start riveting. In the picture below […]
Rudder Hinge Reinforcing Plates
Today I began to work on one of the F1 Rocket mods that are needed on the standard RV-8 tail kit, which are to add additional reinforcing plates. These plates are the same as the ones supplied with the kit, and for these I managed to get some of these extra parts off my buddy Garet as he had some […]