Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Rudder

Spent the last couple of weeks, when time allowed, working on the Rudder. Tad cut and shaped all the stiffeners for the Rudder at his shop and we have match drilled those to the skins. Also, we have assembled the skeleton of the Rudder and fluted, matched drilled those. Next, is deburring the very thin skin and stiffeners and then prime and back-rivet them together.
The Rudder is going together great so far. Taking a bit more time to complete as things have been busy but i am hoping to do a bit more today and then tomorrow night.

We are up to about 68hours so far on this tail kit.