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Wednesday, April 12, 2017

Mounted vertical stabilizer and flap work: 3 hours


  • Mounted the vertical stabilizer and torqued all bolts. Dad was over for a visit and it was much easier to position everything with two people. (This was done on Monday)
  • I removed 4 rivets from each flap end bracket and replaced with flush rivets. When fitting the flaps I found that they would just barely rub the fuselage in the up position. Converting some rivets to flush gave me additional clearance.
  • After riveting the conventional flush rivets and Cherry-max pull rivets I reprimed the end brackets.

Getting ready to set the Cherry-max rivets:

Vertical stabilizer in place, also checking the fit of the empennage fairing: