Sequoia Aircraft Corporation F.8L Falco, Construction Manual

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F.8L Falco Construction Manual 28–5 Revision 4, March 1, 2002
Note: The skin is installed under the fin leading edge strip, and then you glue the leading
edge strip to the skin. It’s perfectly acceptable to cut the leading edge strip short and then
insert a block.
There will be little areas directly below the stabilizer spars which will not be skinned. The
best thing to do is to glue on little pieces of plywood to fill in these “missing teeth”, and
scarf these pieces so the next piece of skin will have a continuous scarfed area to glue to.
If you are using U.S. plywood (which is available in 4’x8’ sheets), you can skin from Sta. 8
to 12 in one step.
The elevator trim tab cable and the aluminum tubing that is used as a conduit in the
stabilizer is a little messy. What you have to do is to cut the aluminum tubing off so that
you can install the skin and still have room to slip the rib in place. After the rib is glued
in place, you fix the end of the aluminum tube in place with blocks of wood or epoxy-and-
flox. It will not be pretty, but all that is necessary is that the conduit is functional. There
is no requirement that the aluminum extend into the fuselage, only that the elevator have
a conduit through which it can be passed. Who cares if the first inch or so is a block of
wood?
Figure 8
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Skin from Sta. 10 to 8. You should skin over the battery box and then cut the opening
after the glue is dry. If you do not do this, the skin will tend to go ‘flat’ around the
opening.