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Horizontal Riveting (Left Side)

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Finished up riveting the Horizontal’s spars, before I moved onto riveting on the Left side skins.

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While I was waiting for an extra set of hands, I started to rivet together the Rudder skeleton.IMG_1418.JPG

The instructions give you the option to use a blind rivet on the Rudder horn, but I opted to squeeze them. I had to put the shop head on the outside, but they came out pretty good.IMG_1420.JPG

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The Horizontal skeleton ready for the first skin:IMG_1423.JPG

Once my extra set of hands showed up, we started to put the left Horizontal skin on.IMG_1427.JPG