{"id":1179,"date":"2009-09-14T17:18:14","date_gmt":"2009-09-14T17:18:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-12-02T18:55:05","modified_gmt":"2017-12-02T18:55:05","slug":"aileron-skins-and-spars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/2009\/09\/14\/aileron-skins-and-spars\/","title":{"rendered":"Aileron Skins and Spars"},"content":{"rendered":"

I went out before work this morning and backriveted all of the stiffeners on both of the aileron skins.<\/p>\n

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Using the bending brake I made for the empennage skins, I bent the aileron skins. \u00a0I ended up having to fine tune the bends with the hand seamer. \u00a0Just like on the elevators, you want the skin to stay perfectly straight from the spar back to the trailing edge radius.<\/p>\n

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The ends of the aileron spars need reinforcing plates where the hinge brackets attach. \u00a0These are made from 0.040″ aluminum and match drilled to the spars.<\/p>\n

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After match drilling, the hinge brackets are clecoed on…<\/p>\n

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…and drilled out with a #12 drill for AN3 bolts.<\/p>\n

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Before calling it a night, I also clecoed the leading edge ribs in place and match drilled them to the skin.<\/p>\n

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I went out before work this morning and backriveted all of the stiffeners on both of the aileron skins. Using the bending brake I made for the empennage skins, I bent the aileron skins. \u00a0I ended up having to fine tune the bends with the hand seamer. \u00a0Just like on the elevators, you want the … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1179"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2676,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179\/revisions\/2676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}