Not a lot of pictures today but there was lots of elbow grease used in the prep of the VS-808PP vertical fin rear spar doubler. Lots of filing, sanding and rubbing with emery cloth and scotchbrite while I break the edges and remove any tooling marks on the VS-808PP spar doubler. Please comment, I love to […]
Vertical Fin Assembly in a Basement Apartment
Today I am progressing with the work on the vertical fin assembly. In the picture shown below I have all the vertical fin parts laid out on the table. These are all RV-8 parts except for the 2 forked doublers which you will see in greater detail in the following photos. As mentioned in previous […]
Vertical Fin Construction Started
This evening I started construction on the vertical fin assembly. Since I’m starting with a standard RV-8 empennage kit, I’m going to be adding a few structural mods to “Rocketize” these parts. Essentially, these mods are similar to the F1 EVO tail. Talk about making-it-work! What a workspace this is…haha! I just moved across the […]
HS-3201 Doubler Cutting
Today I ventured into cutting the HS-3201 horizontal stabilizer forward spar doubler. Drilling I started by securely clamping the doubler plate onto the drill press. I located the center of the holes to be cut. Once the holes were located, I used larger drill bit to cut the holes to size. It was a toss-up […]