This afternoon, riveting of the rudder. The skins are finished.



Next operation will be to built a straight trailing edge, for the time being it looks good. Ant the last thing will be to roll the leading edge.

This morning I painted the stiffeners and the trim tab reinforcing plate.

Stiffeners have been match drilled to the skin, all the holes got deburred and dimpled. Only some sanding to do before priming.
At the end, beginning of the preparation of the trim tab reinforcing plate.
Just for fun we counted the number of holes that fix the stiffeners to the skin. There are 280, that means 560 holes in total (stiffeners + skin) that have to be drilled, deburred on both sides and then dimpled

Work on the stiffeners : rounding the angles and sanding the edges.

Today some work on the rudder, first I drilled an aluminium angle to try to fazabricate a straight trailing edge. The I had to file the stiffeners as they were to high by the trailing edge and lastly I had to re-countersink the trailing edge angle as the dimples weren't sitting correctly.
I then primed everything (or I thought so), before beginning the assembly of the skeleton.
I got stopped by the fact I forgot to prime the counterbalance skin. I think I'll first prepare the elevator's stiffeners before the next priming session.