Elevators- 5 hrs 32 mins (Elevators 43:39, Empennage 166:38, Total 187:34)
Rivet count: 404 (Total 2,558)
Let the riveting begin! We had a great Sunday afternoon to get started on these elevators. Started by riveting the counterbalance ribs together and then the counterbalance skins to the ribs. These steps alone took 2 hours.
Then we started working on the elevator spars and added the reinforcement plates, nutplates, and root ribs. After the root rib was attached we were able to attach the elevator horns. This was 1.5 hours.
Then we attached nutplates to the reinforcement plates for the access panels and then the reinforcement plates were backriveted to the skins. Lastly, we backriveted the rib halves to the bottom skins. -L even helped out with three of them! The last 2 hours.
The top skins are next, but now it's time for studying. Likely won't be able to work on this again until late in the week, if not all the way until next weekend. Tuesday is a holiday, so I may have to take a study break and get those top skins done. Checkride prep and academic exams will have my full priority this workweek. -M
Rivet count: 404 (Total 2,558)
Let the riveting begin! We had a great Sunday afternoon to get started on these elevators. Started by riveting the counterbalance ribs together and then the counterbalance skins to the ribs. These steps alone took 2 hours.
Then we started working on the elevator spars and added the reinforcement plates, nutplates, and root ribs. After the root rib was attached we were able to attach the elevator horns. This was 1.5 hours.
Then we attached nutplates to the reinforcement plates for the access panels and then the reinforcement plates were backriveted to the skins. Lastly, we backriveted the rib halves to the bottom skins. -L even helped out with three of them! The last 2 hours.
The top skins are next, but now it's time for studying. Likely won't be able to work on this again until late in the week, if not all the way until next weekend. Tuesday is a holiday, so I may have to take a study break and get those top skins done. Checkride prep and academic exams will have my full priority this workweek. -M
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