Controls work

30 May 2006: all of us, 5 hours each. This was a busy night. We ground all four of the brass bushings (two for the aileron bellcranks, and two for the control sticks) to the specified clearances on the bellcranks. We cut to length and fitted the larger of the two elevator pushrods. We match-drilled the holes for the rivets that attach the rod ends to all three of pushrods we've made so far. We cut to length and tapped and threaded the tubes for the flap pushrods. All of these aluminum tubes will be annodized, as described in a previous post. We also inventoried all the blind ("Pop") rivets.