My tech counselor, Dan Checkoway, stopped by this morning to check out my progress. He said everything looks excellent. Now that I was good to go, my buddy Andre stopped by again to help me finish the riveting. Here, we’re putting the last rivet in one side of the front spar.
To save time, I borrowed Andre’s squeezer and was able to squeeze two rivets at a time. This really sped things up. 🙂
We only had to drill out a few rivets where the squeezer slipped, but I was able to drill them out without enlarging the hole, so we could just drop another rivet in.
Here, I’m squeezing the very last rivet in the horizontal stabilizer.
In about one 4 hour session, we were able to finish the horizontal stabilizer. It looks so cool to finally see this finished.
