Tag: Vertical Stabilizer

Empennage, vertical stabilizer, horizontal stabilizer, elevator progress

ELT remote ready to install in the panel.

ELT audio alert secured to the vertical stabilizer nose rib.

Right elevator adjustment in progress.

Elevators horns have been drilled and I’d begun taking everything apart when I remembered to shoot a photo. So…pay no attention to the split surfaces.

Horizontal stabilizer is now mounted and torqued to the fuselage. Progress!

Horizontal stabilizer is now mounted and torqued to the fuselage. Progress!

Horizontal stabilizer is now mounted and torqued to the fuselage. Progress!

Empennage, vertical stabilizer, fuselage components

ELT audio alert install location under the vertical stabilizer nose rib. Template fabricated, holes drilled & deburred, and zip ties inserted. Lots of fun with my long fingers, but it’s done now.

ELT cockpit remote awaiting its battery and eventual installation on the panel. Stein left a nice spot on the right side for it including screw holes.

ELT audio alert box awaiting its battery and installation under the vertical stabilizer.

ELT mounting tray installed on the fuselage aft deck. All of those wires coming up through the snap bushing will be connected, in one way or another, to the ELT.

Vertical Stabilizer Completed!

It took a few days, but the vertical stabilizer is finally done. Onward!

Vertical stabilizer skin riveted to skeleton.
Vertical stabilizer rear spar clecoed in place.
Hard at work riveting the rear spar to the rest of the structure.
The pause that refreshes…
Vertical stabilizer complete!
One happy builder holding the project’s first completed assembly.