Tonight we finished the assembly of the vertical stabilizer. It went quickly since we finished all the preparation and assembled the skeleton in February while we were waiting for the missing parts from the horizontal stabilizer. It's nice to have two major parts of the empennage finished. Next up is the rudder.
The first thing we needed to do is take care of some riveting on the rear spar we put off due to a rivet shortage.
Next we set the rear spar aside, and focused on attaching the skin to the front spar and ribs.
This is a shot of the skin attached to the front spar and ribs ready to be riveted.
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Same as the picture above different angle.
Now we take a pretty big jump ahead. The skin has been attached to the front spar and ribs. Scott is now using the rivet squeezer to attach the skin to the rear spar.
Almost done. Darren is using the blind rivet squeezer to rivet the rear spar to the middle rib of the VS.
Scott standing next to the completed VS and HS.
Darren standing next to the completed VS and HS.
A wide angle shot of the completed VS and HS.
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