January 28, 2007

I got the rudder drive horn fully riveted and got started on trimming the rudder skin.

Here's the horn assembly fully riveted shown from the top and bottom. Pretty cool - my first real airplane part. Here's the top first.

The bottom:

Next I stared marking the cuts I need to make in the rudder skin. I stared at the prints for a while looking for indication of which way was "up" on the rudder. After looking at it for a while it finally occured to me that it will only fit in the skin one way - duh.

The left side of the rudder:

The right side:

I got the rudder skin trimmed today, but I didn't get any pictures. I'll take some when I get ready to put in the control surface ribs.

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