At the last day of 2017, I decided to do several small left-overs on the Elevators. First up the tricky trailing edge rivets on both the right and left Elevator. These rivets do no have enough “room” to be able to squeeze them or even get the bucking bar in […]
After having the skin of the Elevators bend (intentionally), now they can be riveted to the understructure. Starting with the right Elevator (the easy one), I could set most rivets with the pneumatic squeezer. There is one particular rivet (in the corner of the ribs and the spar) that needs […]
To bend the trailing edge of the Elevator and the sides of the left Elevator and Trim tab, it’s a good idea to have two people. So I invited my dad again to help me with that. Here you can see we already bend the sides of the Trim tab […]
Just as the previous time, it was again cold. I had some trouble inserting the rivets in the holes, because my fingers were cold. I decided to build the right and left Elevator in parallel. The manual first describes the right Elevator and then the left, but I found that […]
There are two drawings for the Elevators. One for the left and one for the right Elevator. The left Elevator has the Trim Tab with the servo motor, which make it a bit more complex. To be able to use screws for later access to the servo motor, the Trim […]
First “ice-day” of this winter, which is a day where the temperature doesn’t go above freezing point. However I do need to Prime the Elevator parts in order to finish the Empennage. My solution is to use an old electrical heater, to heat the workshop to at least 18°C. It […]