Let the building begin
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The Empennage kit arrives 10/10/02
RV-7A tail with electric trim.
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The aluminum sheets/skins
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Most of the parts for the empennage
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My son helping me with the rear spar.
This is the first part of the H.S. you get to build. The rear spar with the elevator hinges and the spar reinforcement bars. |
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Me match drilling the rear spar assembly
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Rear spar ready for finishing.
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Me after match drilling the left HS
The blue color is a vinyl protective coating |
Close up of inner HS
All the parts line up nice with this all match punched tail. |
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The Horizontal Stabilizer
The HS all match drilled and ready for deburring and dimpling |
This is my C-frame set up for dimpling.
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Me dimpling the skins
It's cold out can you tell! |
Setting rivets in the HS 405 with a hand squeezer
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Megan helping me move clecos
She likes to help with the building. |
Finished Horizontal Stabilizer.
That went well,Total time 16 days about 65 hours started on 11/16/02 ended on 12/7/02. Now on to the Vertical Stabilizer. JUST CLICK on the photo To the right. To go to my photo site were I will post more photos. |
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