John Brecker was the instructor for this class which was held at the RedStone college of Aviation up near Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport in Broomfield. Several members of the RV List Yahoo group that I belong to were in attendance. My main goal for this class was to gain some experience with rolling the leading edge of the practice kit, which basically resembled an airfoil section of a control surface such as an elevator or an aileron. Had a lot of fun meeting new folks just getting their feet wet with the whole process, adn some that are still dreaming of the day. I'll have some more pics and info about the class in later posts. It has been a fairly eventful week for the build, so I want to get that updated for now.
A couple of aluminum sheets, two ribs, 4 stiffeners, and a forward spar. Leading edge is rolled using a 1 inch broom handle adn duct tape.
This is a pic of a back riveting technique that is used on the trailing edges of some control surfaces that use a separate top and bottom sheet, and a wedge that is sandwiched in between the two sheets. Since the rivet gets inserted at an angle, it is not possible to get a typical shop head out of the other end of th rivet when it is set. Instead, the factory or flush head gets taped to the skin, and the skin goes on top of the back rivet plate, and then you take the flush rivet set in the rivet gun and attempt to set the shop head. The result is show below - the shop head only partially fills the dimple in the skin. This is normal, but a bit unseetling to those of us that have been setting rivets for a while, that know what a good shop head is supposed to look like.
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