When building an airplane, everybody knows about and comments on the riveting. Well, riveting gets all the glory but match drilling, deburring, and dimpling is the grunt work that nobody thinks about. These 3 tasks will definitely take up the majority of the build time. With 3 days of a long weekend over Memorial Day […]

From looking at the plans for the rudder, the level of complexity appears to be increasing exponentially. This is mainly due to the assembly of the trailing edge of the rudder. This section of the rudder will require a “double flush rivet” technique of which I don’t think I fully understand at this point. Luckily […]

I spent most of the afternoon finishing up the Vertical Stabilizer. This task consisted of riveting the skin to the spars and ribs as well as attaching the rear spar to the back of the VS. I thought most of the day went well. I drilled out about a half dozen rivets but nothing went […]

Over the course of these two sections, I made the other two mistakes but the 2nd mistake allowed me to erase the one previously described because I ended up replacing parts including the VS-702 and doubler. I “dimpled aft” the correct way this time with the new parts. This is a little out of order […]

I started a few days ago but today, Saturday, April 27, 2019, I made substantial progress. However, some words from the instructor of the EAA Sheetmetal Course, Jack Dueck, that I took about a month ago, rings true: “When you start making your airplane, you want to make the perfect airplane. Well, that lasts about […]