Engine Oil Cabin Heating

he nose oil cooler takes air from a NACA scoop installed on the left side of the fuselage. This opening was prelocated by the factory, and cut and installed it during Head Start much like the other NACA scoops. Then the supplied ducting was cut, the upper section was covered with foil tape and laid […]

Routing Brake Lines and Bleeding Them

Again, mounting the brake pedals is pretty simple. It is worth pointing out, though, the idea that Frank gave us of making sure that the pedal mounting blocks are far enough to the outside of the assembly that is no play in it. It is mounted with a slight gap above the keel. This is […]

Canard Rear Attach Points

In this section we need to make a attachment point on the back side of the canard to accept the torsional load of the wing. In order to do this we made a jig out of 1″x4″ covered with aluminum foil tape to make 3″x3″ pads to later accept a bolt. First we sanded the […]

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 […]