Category: Fairings

After the last post, I completely disassembled my empennage and moved things around in the Garage.  I still have not hung the tailcone from the ceiling, but that is on my “to-do” list shortly as I need to make room for the Wings in early January (already got confirmation that I am scheduled for crating the first week of January!)  With everything put away we ended up having a few days of warmer weather so I took my elevators down to do a little more fiberglass work.

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I realize I said I wasn’t going to do any fiberglass work, but I had some free time over the Veterans Day weekend and wanted to try start attaching the fairings.  First off I focused on the elevator fairings.  I had to trim off some of the fairing on the aft side so it would fit into the elevator and clear the trailing edge.  I also had to sand down the flange a bit to get the fairing to basically sit flush.  (I tried a few things to make a nice 90 degree joggle but honestly wasn’t able to do that very well a razor blade, Xacto knife, or files.)

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