January 8th, 2005
Here we have started assembling the verticle stablizer. This picture is after we cleco'd it together and final drilled.
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Here Shannon is attaching the nose rib on the lower part of the Verical stab.
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Another angle
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Here I am holding the final assembly after we cleco'd the skin on. Can you picture is flying through the air?! This is after we final drilled the skins.
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April 2005
I'm discovering that these pieces all start looking the same after a while: "Here is the horizontal stab spar deburred." "Here is the rudder spar deburred." "Here is the verticle stab spar deburred." So I decided not to get so picture-happy all the time. Don't worry though... I won't leave out anything exciting. :-) Here we have deburred, dimpled, primed, and riveted the verticle stab skeleton. Next to it is the primed skin ready to assemble.
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As promised, here is a picture of the aft verticle stab spar with the spar doubler and rudder hinges all riveted together. Here you can see the lightening holes we drilled out to save a small amount of weight. Better to do now than regret later!!! They turned out pretty good, huh?
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