Balancing the Elevators

The last thing to do the canard (in this chapter at least) is the check the balance and travel. First you must connect the elevators at the center hinge/inboard counterweights, then fixture the trailing edges with your I-Beam. Then using 2 shorter section of I-Beam attached to trailing edge find neutral, and check for 28 […]

Mounting torque tube and counterweight arms

There is simply a ton of work to do on the canard and elevators. This section talks about the center hinge are, but as you can see above we lined this out and installed it during Head Start week with the rest. Then we measured from the center hinge out 20 1/2″ onto both elevators and trimmed […]

Install Nylaflow Tubing for Rudder Cables

This section is simple enough, just take 3/16″ nylaflow tubing from 6″ aft of the attachment point on the pedal assembly, through the carbon beam, sweeping gently up to the top of the gear bulkhead and extending slightly out the back of the firewall. The only real trick here is that the recommended method of […]

Mount Master Cylinders

OK, here’s the deal on Master Cylinders, and a real no holds barred data dump. Very important, shouldn’t be a big deal. The only thing is this the modification mentioned below in 10.5.3, where we pulled the pedal mounts to the very outside of the pedal cross tube, which pretty much centers the pedals. That’s […]

Spar Lay-ups

This is a roddy good section, with plenty of good acting as they say in Python. Actually, this is better suited to Princeton basketball, because there are tons of layups to be done. The first is to bid the top and bottom of the spar to the firewall, and the little chamfered openings on the […]

Spar Lay-ups

This is a roddy good section, with plenty of good acting as they say in Python. Actually, this is better suited to Princeton basketball, because there are tons of layups to be done. The first is to bid the top and bottom of the spar to the firewall, and the little chamfered openings on the […]