12/27/10 - Rudder Warp Fix
As mentioned, assembly of the rudder was moving along fine until it became apparent that the ruddder was not “square” with the world. My (Dan’s) thought is that this issue is somewhat easy to avoid but just as easy to fall into if you are not careful. The bottom line is that the rudder structure, …
12/21/10 - Rudder Assembly and Warp
Match drilled rudder to ribs and hinge….found it was slightly skewed from original cutout and bend and never corrected. OK, maybe more than slightly skewed. About 1 inch potato chip shape. No way to fix this easily without making it look like it was in an accident. Can salvage horn without ribs and hinge. Can …
12/20/10 - Rudder Skin Trim & Hinges
Trimmed final rudder skin to length and shape. Cut and drilled hinges for rudder. (side track to build enclosure for noisy compressor) Return To Rudder Page
12/19/10 - Hinge Template & Rudder Skin Trim
Bought sacrificial ruler to drill hinges. Studied hinges for rudder to make sure cuts lengths and locations were understood. Trimmed sample rudder to size and marked final rudder skin. Return To Rudder
12/18/10 - Assembled Rudder Horn
Made T14-03 (optional ribs for fiberglass tips). Assembled rudder horn, assembled elevator root horn. Made elevator trim piece for and attached to elevator horn. Return To Rudder – Empennage Page
11/30/10 - Rudder Horn Rib
2-1/2 hours .Took a break last night as I was very tired from staying up too late on Sunday night (playing hockey). So tonight I wanted to make sure I spent at least some time in the shop. De-bured the remake rudder horn rib (T13-04 and 05) and bent them to shape. Since this was …
10/22/10 - Rudder Ribs
The rudder ribs are bent from .025″ sheet metal.
10/17/10 - First Rudder Bend
OK, we’ve put off bending the control surface for the vertical stabalizer (AKA the “rudder”) for some time. All the control serfaces, (rudder, elevators, ailerons, flaps) are very similar. The elevators and rudder (shape Z03-01) are the same cross section with different length wise dimensions and the ailerons and flaps (Z02-01 and Z02-02 respectively) are …
10/15/10 - Construction and use of a rib former
Details of constructing and using a web former