Rudder Stiffeners Complete!

I will not lie, that was a bit boring.  Fortunately, I’m done!

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7 pieces of metal cut into 14 different pieces of metal, carefully.  Much filing and deburring.  Tomorrow my progress is rewarded with cleco’ing and drilling!

Berck: 2.5 hours.

Endless Rudder Stiffeners

Just looking at this page of the plans filled me with excitement:IMG_20140310_210839

I’m sure it’s far from the most tedious thing on the plane, but doing endless nearly-identical bits isn’t the most fascinating thing.  But, it’s got to get done, and there’s an airplane at the end of the tunnel.  A little over 2 hours, and I got 2.5 of them done:

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Berck: 2.5 hours.