Our canard tips came already assembled with our fast build wings. We first then mixed pour foam and filled the tips, and sanded them level when cured. For formatting only Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisci elit, sed eiusmod tempor incidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrum […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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The trailing edge of the canard was next tapered to about .03″, and 4 straightedges were attached to the canard and elevators to hold them in alignment while the hinge arms were potted in. The elevators are checked to be in alignment with a string down the torque tubes, and the gap to the canard […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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