This is the rear spar attachment. This is were the back of the horiz. stab. will be
bolted to the tail of the airplane. Notice the rivet pitch template? It is courtesy
Don Honabach.
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This is the rear spar attachment clecoed in place. For all of you who don't like doing
the same ol' thing over and over, look at this! Thirty five tightly packed rivets. As
a side note, these are #30 clecoes. They will be bumped to #20s as soon as I go back
to "The Yard" for some more $0.35 clecos.
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Long time since new photos! Anyway, here is the front spar with the doublers,
attachments, and ribs drilled into place. The rear spar is not drilled to the
ribs yet, but it won't be long now! The front spar is the one I messed up by
drilling the spar attachments slightly off center. Special thanks to Kermit
Dixon for allowing the new spar to hitch a ride!
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Here you see the ribs drilled to both spars. If you look close, you can see my
labeling scheme. I put a number on the rib flange and on each spar as I drilled the
rib to the first spar. Looks pretty cool! I can't wait to I hide all this work
with the skin!
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Here is the bottom of the horizontal with the skin drilled to it.
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Here I am caught in the act. By the way, I used to wear the glasses hap-hazardly.
After bouncing a broken bit off my forehead, I now ALWAYS wear them. It would suck
to have a lost medical make this all for not. You can see the elevator hanging on the
wall behind me (the angle of the camera makes it look funny).
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This is the horizontal tail straped to my workbench so I can attach the top side of
the skin to the skeleton. Notice that the rachets are rolling over? That should tell
you that I am not crushing the structure, only bringing the top skin down into place.
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Here you see it again at a different angle. Something you should notice is that there
are clecos on BOTH sides. I did not rivet one side, then roll it over to work on the
other side. For details about how I did this and why, please read the construction log.
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Does it fit? Of course it fits! Looks pretty cool, too! To get an idea about how
big this is, the bench is 8 feet wide.
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I realized that I didn't have a photo of the complete horizontal and elevator.
Now I do.
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