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Some pics of the rudder fun.

January 19, 2006 / posted in Empennage / Comments Off

Some pics of the rudder skeleton riveting process.

Riveting the control horn, rib, horn brace and spar together.. Interlocking puzzle. Generating an exploded
view in your head is kind of fun. Until your head explodes.

Riveting the horn on.. They say you can use pop rivets for some of this. I’m going to.

Looky at all this primed crap. Pay no attention to the claw-hammer in the foreground.

Here you can see the fluted 904 rib and one of the rudder-hinge platenuts.

Okay, okay, I wanted to see the rudder skeleton hanging off the VS. Just because

Apparently I wanted to see it more than once.