The first bracket for the vertical fin mount is completed. It took me a full four days of intensive metalwork and welding, reject included.  Note

The front attachment of the vertical stabiliser is built of three parts, each made of welded CrMo sheet metal.

Not much building progress in the past few weeks but instead some headway in respect of engineering. I spent a few weeks under the warm

There are two pivoting links and three control rods connecting the mixing unit with the angled shaft in the rear of he fuselage. To make

The assembly of the gear took considerably longer than expected. The conical bolts for the crossbar can not be found on this side of the

The gear is coming along. The parts are manufactured, some assembled already.

The elevon trim pulleys and cable guards in the nose gear bay are all installed. The bases are alle very massiv. It would be sensible

Small pulleys, big effort. The blueprints show the elevon trim cables running  along the right cockpit wall to the rear. Within easy reach of the

According the original blueprints the control wires are all spliced. With the given narrow spacing between the wires this leads to the wires contacting each