Empennage

Today I started on the Left Elevator. I had already done a few of the step as I was working on the Right Elevator and was a couple of steps ahead. I had the reinforcement plates and corresponding platenuts cleco'd to the E-702 Spar. Also, the E-703 end rib and the E-704 counterbalance rib had been cleco'd and drilled. So I started out on the E-714 counterweight and cleco'd the E-713 counterbalance skin to these parts. I drilled the two holes in the E-713 to a #12 through the E-714 and the E-703 and E-704. Then I got to take the E-714 counterweight out and re-cleco'd the sub-assembly to the E-702 Spar.

Next came the E-705 root rib to the E-702; I final drilled these to #40. Next I cleco'd the E-701-L skin to the understructure. With that in place I took the clecos out of the E-705 and E-702 so I could cleco and drill the WD-605-1-L Elevator Horn to the E-705 and E-702.

Then I cleco'd and final drilled the E-606PP to E-705 at the root end of the E-606PP Spar. Next came the drilling of the E-701-L skin to the understructure. Once that was done I took everything apart.

3 Hours

Total hours on project = 139