March 15, 2004 - Rudder

 

The Rudder is different from the HS and VS in that instead of one folded skin, there are two flat skins.

Each skin half has eight stiffeners that will ultimately be riveted to it. These stiffeners, all 16 of them, have to be cut, trimmed, deburred and dimpled. I used the aluminum shears to trim them. The grinder with scotch-brite wheel, really paid for itself by making rounding of the stiffener corners a snap. The stiffener holes were pre-drilled which was nice. It took me three nights to do all 16 stiffeners.
 
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