Empennage

Spent the afternoon getting all the dimples done in both the skin and all the ribs and spars. I put a coat of primer on the rear spar stiffener. Once that was done I went ahead and riveted the rear spar together with the hinge brackets and the stiffener. The next step was to rivet the ribs to the front spar. All these steps were fairly simple and though it took a little time to get done it wasn't complicated. Then I clecoed the skin to the front spar assembly and called Donna out to lend a helping hand. We switched back and forth between shooting and bucking the rivets. Donna couldn't make up her mind which she wanted to do. When we got all the rivets in that we had to shoot and buck I was able to use the pneumatic squeezer to go around the edges to set those rivets. That just leaves the rear spar to be riveted to the assembly to complete the Vertical Stabilizer. I should be able to finish that up tomorrow morning.

4 Hours

Total Hours on Project = 70