Pitts S1-SS Construction Gallery » 2010 » September 2010

APS Paint shop.	Painted cylinders drying in the warming cupboard.	Cylinder bases painted. Yuck Lycoming colour.	Close up of the cylinder base.	Close up of the cylinder base.
Right lower aileron coming together. Took surprisingly...	Adjusting the gap to the rib - 0.25".	Doublers for the hinge points.	Tip hinge and using a straight edge to check the tip...	Aileron stuff...
PLy leading edge being "planned". Realised that it would...	Sigh. I hate riveting clsoe up against sides. What a mess.	Fixed.... Although, who knows if it will unbalance the...	Took ages to install machine screws on each rib.	Doing a visual check on the straightness of the ribs....
Doing a visual check on the straightness of the ribs....	Every rib is attached like this now.	Outer hinge bay.	Need to figure out how this attaches still.	Centrer hinge section doublers.
Centrer hinge section doublers.	Plethora of machine screws....	And again	Inner hinge bay - 5" width	Inner hinge bay - 5" width
Side braces... I am going with a top/bottom brace, rather...	Top brace will attach like this, bottom one will be added.	This took 4 hours... pretty time consuming stuff!	View from other side.	Trailing edge on and side braces installed.
Decided onupper and lower brace made from extrusion.	Other side of the angle brace	This is what slave drive rod ends look like after 3 days...	Lower right aileron - clamping the leading edge down onto...	Lower right aileron - starting the drilling and clecos.
Lower right aileron - starting the drilling and clecos.	Lower right aileron - top side holes all drilledand...	Other side, more drilling and clecos ahead.

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