Chapter 13 - Canard installation

Over the last couple of weeks I have been slowly working on fitting the canard to the fuselage. This involved ensuring the fuse longerons were level in both axes, that the canard was level and strait, and at the correct incidence.

Then the canard was clamped to the fuse at the aluminum lift tabs and the two high density foam canard attach tabs were glassed in place.


Here you can see the canard clamped to the fuse. If you look at the left side (closer) clamp you can see a peice of scrap aluminum used as a shim to ensure the canard has no sweep. Later I laid up about 7 plies of bid to that location to keep the canard in the correct position after final assembly. Also visible is the template used to ensure the canard is at zero incidence.

Like the plans state.... "this step may crowd your shop slightly"


I made an attempt to shape the elevator fairings. This was turning out quite nice, however it started to get damaged because I needed to remove the canard many times while ensuring it fit properly. It should not be difficult to shape the final fairings once the canard is finally ready.

Chapter 10 - Complete!

Finally I have completed chapter 10!. Most of the latest work was actually completed last month. I have just been awaiting some miscellaneous hardware from ACS to complete installation of the elevators.

The canard and elevators are not quite complete. I will wait until after the canard is installed and the inboard elevators have been trimmed to fit before I install the counter weights and ensure the elevators are balanced properly.

Here is the completed canard


Here are some shots of the swoopy tips being formed