{"id":330,"date":"2011-04-24T14:31:02","date_gmt":"2011-04-24T20:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/?p=330"},"modified":"2011-08-06T14:34:49","modified_gmt":"2011-08-06T20:34:49","slug":"2-8-3-rudder-installation-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/24\/2-8-3-rudder-installation-2\/","title":{"rendered":"2.8.3 Rudder Installation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pps-series-post-details pps-series-post-details-variant-classic pps-series-post-details-4068\" data-series-id=\"26\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-content\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-text\">This entry is part 4 of 8 in the series <a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/series\/02-wing-winglets\/\">02 - Wing \/ Winglets<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><p>The procedure for mounting the rudders is similar to the ailerons&#8230; Just backwards. First the bottom of the rudders are squared up and the fit is verified. Then the hinges are mounted to the rudders with structural epoxy and countersunk rivets.<\/p>\n<p>One of the hinge pads drilled and countersunk ready for the hinge.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMAG0264.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-334\" title=\"IMAG0264\" src=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMAG0264-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Next two holes are drilled in the winglet.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMAG0267.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-333\" title=\"IMAG0267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMAG0267-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then Malcolm held the hinge in place and with a thin piece of steel, pressed hinge against the inside of the winglet. While he was doing that, I drilled through the hole in the winglet into the hinge. Once the hole was drilled, a cleco held it in position and a the second hole was drilled.<\/p>\n<p>All three hinges drilled with two holes each.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMAG0268.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-332\" title=\"IMAG0268\" src=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMAG0268-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Close up.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMAG0269.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-331\" title=\"IMAG0269\" src=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMAG0269-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A third hole is then drilled in each hinge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pps-series-post-details pps-series-post-details-variant-classic pps-series-post-details-4068 pps-series-meta-excerpt\" data-series-id=\"26\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-content\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-text\">This entry is part 4 of 8 in the series <a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/series\/02-wing-winglets\/\">02 - Wing \/ Winglets<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><p>The procedure for mounting the rudders is similar to the ailerons&#8230; Just backwards. First the bottom of the rudders are squared up and the fit is verified. Then the hinges are mounted to the rudders with structural epoxy and countersunk &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/24\/2-8-3-rudder-installation-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"series":[26],"class_list":["post-330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-8","series-02-wing-winglets"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":336,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions\/336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}