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Jabiru J450 Constructors Manual
Pre-Paint>Fuselage>Empennage>Fit vertical tail fin
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
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Reinforce the fin spar
Coat the foam wedge that you cut previously with resin and fit it into place at the base of the
fin spar channel, with the bottom resting on the horizontal stabiliser.
Apply flock to smooth the transition between the block and the vertical fin and the block and
the horizontal stabiliser.
Open the bag labelled “
Outer Reo Tail Fin
” and take out the 6 “T” shaped pieces of glass
fibre cloth: the top of the “T” is intended to be fitted inside the fin reinforcing channel while
the rest of the cloth is fixed to the top of the horizontal stabiliser as shown above right.
Apply the 6 layers of glass fibre cloth from the bag labelled “
Tail Fin
” to the inside of the fin
spar channel, starting with the smallest layer first and progressively adding each longer layer
until complete as shown on the drawing below. No peel cloth is required.
Vertical fin
Horizontal stabiliser