Oct 04, 2004     Installing the aileron trim tab - (30 hours)       Category: Wings

Assembling the trim tab proved to be a challenge because of the tight spaces we had to work in. We had first primes the inner skin, as we had the entire empenage, using a well respected 2-part epoxy ptimrt used by the Navy. After we did the empenage we realized we should switch to a much lighter colored primer which made it much easier to look inside any area with a flashlight.

We used mainly a hand river squeezer when we could rather than a #2 rivet gun which we took some time to get the hang of. The trim tab also included our first heavy-duty piano hinge, i.e., and extruded rather than a rolled hinge.