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TAILS
21. Put the windshield on the front fuselage. It is held in
place with eight 2.3X8mm wood screws. You will need to
drill a 1/16'' pilot hole for each screw first. Next install
the wing dowels.
INSTALL THE TAIL GROUP
22.Remove the elevator and rudder and glue the hinges
into the control surfaces using the same technique
outlined for the ailerons.
23. Trim away the covering from the slot and pushrod
exit hole at the rear of fuselage where vertical fin and
horizontal stab go.
24.Use ruler to decide the center of stab and make
marks. With the main wing centered on the fuselage,
position the horizontal stab. Draw lines at both sides of
stab.
25.Remove the stab and fin from the fuselage and use a
hobby knife to carefully score the covering material
where marked. Make the score approximately 1/16''
inside the lines you drew. It is very important that you do
not press hard enough to cut into the wood itself or the
stabilizer may fail in flight. Just score the covering and it
will peel away nicely.
In a similar fashion, remove the covering material on the
vertical fin.
26. Glue the stab and fin to the fuselage with epoxy,
keeping the stab and fin in position as diagram shown.
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A=A'
The fin is perpendicular to the stab. Both stab tips to the
main wing are equal from the rear view (A=A').
27.The rudder and elevator pushrods have already
been pre-assembled at the factory. Insert the rudder
pushrods which is bent at the thread end , thread end
first, into the fuselage and exits the slot on the top of the
rear fuselage. Locate the clevis, thread the clevis onto
the threaded end at least 1/4'' in length.
28.Locate the control horns and 2X20mm screws. Snap
the clevis onto the control horns. Now position this horn
onto the Rudder in such a way that the nyrod runs
straight and the holes in the control horn are in line with
the hinge line of the stabilizer. Mark the location of the
control horn mounting holes on the elevator. Next, drill
5/64'' holes where marked.
TAILS
29.Cut the control horn as photo shown.
30. Carefully cut a hole with hobby knife at the tail as the
elevator pushrod exit.
31.Use control horn as template and drill 5/64'' holes
with the control horn in line with the hinge line of
elevator and right at the pushrod exit.
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