Getting started...

[MikeFairbanks]

So the first chapter in the manual is the horizontal stabilizer and elevator. But I jumped ahead and put the landing gear on first just to make it easier to move the plane around by myself.

Once the gear was on I went back to the beginning, and again didn't do things in order. I started out OK reaming holes and all that, but when I got to the part about installing the wooden ribs for the air-foiled "speedster tail" I skipped ahead again.

The stab goes in and out of the fuselage a number of times as you go through the steps, and I felt better doing that without the wooden ribs installed and potentially getting dinged. They're not as fragile as the balsa ribs on a model airplane, but I just didn't want to risk hangar rash.

So all the reaming, bushings, bearings, struts, rigging, and trim actuator work was done sans wooden ribs. Now that work is done, I will pull it back out and prep and install the ribs.

Here are 2 time lapse videos...



This one is only 40 seconds, and shows final hook up of the trim actuator and testing...