Adam Dickson

Repair of dint in horizontal stabiliser skin

A handling incident caused a dint to be made in the horizontal stabiliser upper surface. The most realistic option was to partly de-skin the lower surface and use a nylon hammer to flatten out the dint, then re-rivet. Just filling the dint was not my preferred option but in retrospect might have been best. The result was mixed - the hammered area is very slightly stretched which lead to some slight localised oil-canning. Also, the outermost lower skin surface has some mild oil-canning which I could not get rid of. Not a big deal, and this may have been present previously. Move on.

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