Brief Description: Riveting the Horizontal Stabilizer
After reaching a stopping point with the elevators this morning, I decided to start wrok on the Horizontal Stabilizer again. As you may or may not remember, I ran short of rivets and had to wait for replacements (which I spent working on the elvators). I worked on riveting the front spar assembly together first, while Aneta was at her pregnant yoga class. When she returned, she apparently felt good enough to help me rivet the nose ribs in. These are the most difficult rivets on the HS in my opinion, but Aneta bucked them like a pro. The space in the nose is extremely tiny, so Aneta's small hands definitely helped in this situation. After the nose ribs were in, I moved on to the rivets in the front spar.
Aneta helped me rivet the nose ribs (at 36 weeks pregnant!)
The HS skins with the front spar assembly clecoed in place.
Here's me bucking rivets in the front spar. The nose is even smaller than THIS!
