Kerry Stevens RV-8a site

Empannage Construction

Here are pictures of the vertical and horizontal stabilizer and elevator and rudder construction.

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Elevators with and without spars

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Test the trim tab with a drill battery

More to come.

sand stiffner edges on belt sander after bandsaw
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No, I didn't

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Working on the vertical stabilizer. Cold out there

Finished vertical stabilizer.
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Would you trust your life to an airplane made by this man ?

It got cold this winter so I bundled up.

If you hurt yourself, I have never seen you before and somebody else posted this stuff here.  No,  I don't know who it was