Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Tail Assembly Begins

I finally got through the house stuff, at least enough to get me by until spring.  I built my workbench and finished all the individual parts except for the hinges.  I need to order the hardware kits from Spruce to get the hinge stock and I've started on the tail.  Elevators and the rudder skins are trimmed to size and the pilot holes drilled.  Started on the individual assemblies, this is the elevator control horn.

Here is the control horn and the elevator skins.
 The rudder control horn.
This is the main spar assembly in the vertical stabilizer.  I'm going to finish fitting, drilling and deburring all the parts in the tail.  Then I'll put a thin coat of zinc chromate on and I'll be ready to rivet it all together.  Having pre-built the individual parts is making this go very fast.