SNB-T01: Tail Installation
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Tail Installation – Part 3
Mocked up ELT location on rear shear web and marked vertical stabilizer on where skin needs to be trimmed. Removed vertical stabilizer and marked out mounting hole location on shear web. Trimmed vertical stabilizer skin and riveted ELT mount and clamps to fuselage. Painted elevator horn with spray paint. Reattached vertical stabilizer with AN3 and…
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Tail Installation – Part 2
Mocked up vertical stabilizer into place and noticed elevator horn was impacting vertical stabilizer skin and preventing full motion. Removed vertical stabilizer and trimmed skin at base. Continued to file elevator horn to ensure full 25 degrees of pitch up. Inserted elevator pushrod into fuselage before getting too far. Set elevator hinge pins all the…
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Tail Installation – Part 1
Began tail surface installation by moving tail surfaces from house to hangar. Discovered that horizontal stabilizer skins were installed upside down and that the bottom skins would need to be trimmed to fit around fuselage tail cone. Using the top side skin as a reference, trimmed bottom skin to clear fuselage tail cone. Will need…