Fit the HS-404 and HS-405 ribs. Drilling didn’t go well. I already didn’t like the way they looked and this was just too much. Ordered some new ribs!
Archive for the ‘Empenage’ Category
Bad Ribs
Friday, September 19th, 2008Skinning the horizontal stabilizer
Thursday, September 18th, 2008Put the skin on the horizontal stabilizer for the first time.
Prep’n Ribs
Wednesday, September 17th, 2008Got the left HS ribs ready. This consisted of deburring the edges and lightening holes and fluting them to straightening them.
Bend’n aluminum
Tuesday, September 16th, 2008Put the 6 degree bend in the HS-710 and HS-714 reinforcing angle. Did more trimming on the left front spar.
Left Herizontal Stabilizer Front Spar
Monday, September 15th, 2008I prep’ed the left HS front spar. This mostly consisted of trimming back a little of the flange, drilling some relief holes and bending it by six degrees. I also tapered the HS-710 and HS-714 reinforcing angles. Sorry, forgot to take pictures.
Cutting the HS-404 nose ribs didn’t turn out so well. Looking kind of ugly:
