Installing Hinge Arm

Once the hinges have cured, we mounted the hinge arms to each hinge and placed the elevators in the trailing edge slot of the canard. The hinge arm locations were then transferred to the canard, and slots were carved out of the canard to accept them approximately 3/8″ x 1 -1/4″ all the way to […]

Installating Elevator Hinge

To install the elevator hinges, we aligned the vertical tabs to be flush with our marks from the previous section and verified that they were inline with each other with string. Also differing from what was stated in the manual, we received both left and right hinges, and aligned them with the vertical plated facing […]

Elevator to Canard Fitting

This section starts off with instructions on how to find the center-line of the canard by marking the distance halfway between the lift tabs, and measuring and marking 90″ outboard of this line to both ends and square off the canard. Although we made these marks while we were in Florida, due to time constraints […]

Upper Canard Cut-Out

The upper canard cut-out was made during our Head Start week. I find it terrifying to make big cuts like this on my expensive bird, but it’s fairly straight forward. Just stretch the pre-marked lines down to meet the lower cut-out line. This forms the “doghouse”. You can’t tell from this picture (see below), but […]

Canard Attach Reinforcement

For the bulkhead reinforcement we cut 8 8″-18″ pieces of Triaxial lengthwise, and trimmed it into an “L” to fit the canard cut-out. The sections overlap the opening by 4″ above and below, and extend onto the bulkhead by 5″, 2 plys each. Canard Bulkhead Reinforcement – Bulkhead Side Canard Bulkhead Reinforcement – Fuselage Side […]

Canard Critical Dimensions

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