{"id":103,"date":"2006-01-23T23:45:52","date_gmt":"2006-01-23T23:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/?p=103"},"modified":"2006-01-23T23:45:52","modified_gmt":"2006-01-23T23:45:52","slug":"starting-to-look-rudderish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/?p=103","title":{"rendered":"Starting to look rudderish."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>6 hours.<br \/>\nOK, six hours all totaled, most of which was setting up the most ergonomic and process-friendly way to rivet the skin onto the skeleton.  But once set up, it flowed nicely.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/images\/1-22-06\/IMG_1914.JPG\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><br \/>\nSkin riveted on.  AEX wedge is just sitting there, not stuck on yet.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/images\/1-22-06\/IMG_1915.JPG\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><br \/>\nThis is to show the stiffeners.  There were a couple of them  that interfered with their counterparts on the opposite skin, so I had to mill them clear of each other.  No biggie.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/images\/1-22-06\/IMG_1916.JPG\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><br \/>\nSame here, but the opposite skin. . the red light is my finger over the flash so it doesn&#8217;t blow out the<br \/>\npicture.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/images\/1-22-06\/IMG_1917.JPG\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><br \/>\nThe lower rib.  You can see where the fluting happened, and also the fluting i had to do to the bottom attach strip for the rudder bottom.. IMHO, this is a hack.. Why the rudder bottom can&#8217;t be attached like all the other fiberglas pieces is beyond me.  Maybe the thin rudder skin can&#8217;t be expected to hold it all on its own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>6 hours. OK, six hours all totaled, most of which was setting up the most ergonomic and process-friendly way to rivet the skin onto the skeleton. But once set up, it flowed nicely. Skin riveted on. AEX wedge is just sitting there, not stuck on yet. This is to show the stiffeners. There were a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}