Builder Assist Program Day 4

09 Mar 2006: 5 hours each. Day 4 of the Builder Assist. Thanks to all our hard work the last 3 days, and the willingness of Jacob and Mike from Alexander Tech Center to stay late supervising us, we had only a few things to wrap up today. The elevators, rudder, and trim tab had been primed the previous night, so all we had to do was assemble them all back together, and do the riveting.

There were a couple of tricky spots for which we really benefited from the Builder Assist Program. One was rolling the leading edge of the elevators, for which once again, they had a handy stand that held the elevators in place while rolling. Here is Jacob from Alexander Tech Center demonstrating how to use the stand.




The other was riveting the trailing edge of the rudder while keeping it as straight as possible. On this last step in particular, we really benefited from Jacob's advice and instruction.