Aileron Ribs

Hours: 1.5

Time to finish off the external control surfaces with the Aileron. I already primed them a while back, so time to assemble the ribs.

First order of business was sorting the ribs between left and right aileron. Then I checked off all the hardware needed. I already knew from my earlier investigating that the AN bolts for this is in the finishing kit, and the eyebolts are attached to the control rods.

Right Aileron ribs laid out in order

After laying them out, I started riveting the control brackets using the 4.8 mm rivets.

Riveting the hinge bracket 1 to rib 2

Then for rib 7 I laid out both brackets. The instructions are missing details about this rib, but it was easy to figure out that it uses the remaining 4.8 mm rivets (24 total per the part list, 9 are used for bracket 1, and counting out the holes of bracket 2 and 3, it comes to 24). I also noticed that one bracket slightly overlaps the other, which means that first I had to fully rivet the bracket 3:

First riveting the bracket 3

With this completed, I then riveted the hinge bracket 2.

Riveting bracket 2 which floats over bracket 3

The final rib that needs preparation is the assembly of the Eyebolt attachment that controls the movement of the aileron. I put it all together and then torqued it and placed some torque marker on it.

Completed assembly of the control rod attachment.
Complete assembly of the control rod attachment rib and torque marker on the torqued bolt.

Then I repeated everything for the left Aileron ribs. Next step will be to lay all the ribs into the skins and rivet it closed.

Completed left Aileron ribs
Completed right Aileron ribs

3 thoughts on “Aileron Ribs

  1. John Swanson

    Phillip, When was the last time you received a shipment of anything from TAF?.

    Reply
    1. Philip Rueker Post author

      I got the tube for the aileron around February. I’m currently waiting for the heater system.
      The factory in South Africa started shipping things again two weeks ago.

      You can check with Perry from TAF in Torrance if you want an update on something.

      Reply
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