F-16C/D horizontal stabilizers

[Solo]

I am building Kinetic's F-16D USAF 310FS 'Mig Killer' now. I know this aircraft has got horizontal stabilizers with 6 rows of rivets.

Questions:

1) Are the rivets on these stbilizers only on the top surface or on both surfaces?
2) Which variants of F-16 has got those stabilizers rivetted, and which ones has got clean surface?
Anyone can help?

[strikeeagle801]

I don't know which ones got them and which ones did not, but the stabs are interchangeable left and right, so if they have them on the top surface, they are going to have them on the bottom as well.

 

Aaron 

[habu2]

Rivets on both sides, the inner structure of the stabilizer is a "W" pattern web (vs individual spars)

[Solo]

1 hour ago, strikeeagle801 said:

I don't know which ones got them and which ones did not, but the stabs are interchangeable left and right(...)

 

Aaron 

Are you sure that? I have always seen left stabiliser with upper static dischargers, and right ones were always underneath. Never the other way around.

[strikeeagle801]

1 hour ago, Solo said:

Are you sure that? I have always seen left stabiliser with upper static dischargers, and right ones were always underneath. Never the other way around.

Absolutely positive. Information taken directly from Jake's Modern Viper Guide. 

 

Aaron 

[habu2]

Yes the H stabs are interchangeable.  Information taken directly from my time on the program at GD/LMTAS. 

[BillS]

I’ll back those guy’sclaims. I was a maint.officer in 4 ‘16 organizations. A big selling point of the 16 was interchangeablability of components and slabs were one of them. The 16 was/is a brilliant thing. Expect to see more models of it for years to come I think.

 

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[CF104]

21 hours ago, Solo said:

Are you sure that? I have always seen left stabiliser with upper static dischargers, and right ones were always underneath. Never the other way around.

 

They are the same. When on the left the static dischargers are on top and when it's flipped to the right side they are on the bottom. They are built that way on purpose so you will never see them the other way around.

 

Cheers,

 

John

[Solo]

Sweet Lord, you are right, what I have been thinking of... 🙂

[strikeeagle801]

While it is nice to go by something in a book (even when it is written by someone like Jake who really knows what he is talking about) it is nice to have it backed up by someone who has actually worked on the aircraft. Thank you guys for first-person confirmation! 

 

Aaron