In the last weeks I prepared all the horizontal stabilizer parts, match-drilled the ribs and front spar, and then finally got the skins set up into the cradles and started mounting the parts in them, including the stringers.
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| Skins with the front spar, ribs and stringers |
I got plenty of help, both from my wife and from a visiting friend:
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| ♫ I'll fly high with a little help from my friends ♫ (I did install the Sonos in the garage, so now I get music while working) |
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| Setup to bend the inboard spars by exactly 9° |
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| Front spar + ribs assembled and drilled |
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| Cradles for the stabilizer skins |
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| ♫ Skins in the craddle and the silver spoon ... ♫ |
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| Ribs mounted into the skin |
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| Front spar and ribs mounted into the skin |
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| Stringers mounted into the skin and ribs |
Next steps are to finish clecoing all the parts to the skin, adding the rear spar assembly and final-drilling all the skin holes.
Total horizontal stabilizer time: 39.9h
Time lapse (some camera angles turned out to not be very good):
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