The rear leg is wrapped with Kevlar and glued with CA. The front leg is attached by flooding it with thick CA and pressing in wood filler on top to encase it.
The rear leg is
wrapped with Kevlar and glued with CA. The front leg is attached
by flooding it with thick CA and pressing in wood filler on top to
encase it.
The original plan
showed all these strings converging at a point on the centerline.
That would be ugly. I changed it to a more
usual arrangement. A
1/64 ply doubler
was laminated on the
top of the 1/32 balsa center section sheeting. This was to allow
for a center bolt wing hold down. Small
strips of balsa were glued on in
the
curve where
the fuselage profile intersects the wing, shown on the plan. The
balsa was sanded nearly all off, it is just an anchor for the covering. The stringers
were sanded as
necessary on the lower front edge to match the wing and installed.
The outside corners were filled with sheet balsa and sanded to
fair in.
The elevator and
rudder are hinged with small Robart hinges, with the pivot points on the
center of a round radius sanded
in the surface
leading edges, so the gap is minimal and stays the same as the surfaces
move.
