• Attach the lower fuselage part using UHU Por ® or cyano, using the activator spray sparingly
• Make sure the lower fuselage part is at a right angle (and make sure the elevator has full
movement range) !
Figure 10: view of wing / fuselage horizontal piece / tailplane assembly from the top
Figure 11: separating the two fuselage halves
Figure 12: gluing the lower fuselage part
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8) Adding the wing struts
• The wing struts are made from 1.5mm carbon rods
• The joining points are on the fuselage, and the surfaces marks for these are milled and marked
• The strut lengths are approximately 22cm at the front and 21cm at the back
• Avoid sticking to the building board at the outer splices, and consider the following order of
fabricating:
1. cut the carbon rods to length
2. place wing struts in position and glue to the surface with cyano
3. check the struts are at the correct angle and glue them to the the fuselage
9) Tailplane struts and Fuselage bracing
• The lower tailplane struts are made from 1mm carbon rods
• The joining points are marked on the fuselage and also on the tailplane
• The strut lengths are approximately 140mm at the front and 150mm at the back
• The tailplane struts are (as for the wing struts) aligned and then glued
• Then carbon rod bracing is placed over one side of the lower fuselage using a zig-zag method,
make sure you check the angles !
The length of the struts are: 5 x 110 mm and 1x 100 mm (The front strut ends at the wing
struts!)
Procedure:
• sharpen the ends of the carbon rods slightly (using a mini-drill grinding wheel) so that a maximum
of 2mm is inserted into the foam
• align the rods and check they are at the correct angles between the horizontal part and the lower
part of the fuselage
Figure 13: wing struts, wing surface
Figure 14: tailplane struts, lower fuselage
Figure 15: fuselage zig-zag bracing
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Upper Tailplane bracing and Front fuselage
Be careful with the tailplane bracing and take care to preserve the hinge lines
• Glue the upper tailplane bracing with a small amount of cyano and little activator spray.
• Do not use UHU Por ®!
• Then attach the front part of the fuselage to the leading edge of the wing -the side markers are
countersunk into the front wing surface to assist adjustment.
10) Aileron servo / linkage
• Glue in the aileron servo, add the servo horn (add an extension to this horn if necessary)
• Cut a length of 1.5 mm carbon rod (about 160mm)
• Connect the heat shrink tube and glue to the aileron horn
• Tip: place a length of heatshrink tubing between the aileron horn and the aileron pushrod, and
