The nose wheel was stored in a dark cellar of a Venom owner. Thankfully, he was willing to sell it to me. However, I'm still missing the...

The fabrication of the foot part was a real challenge. The cutting and bending of the individual sheet metal pieces was done entirely by...

Countless litres of shielding gas, several metres of welding wire, and a worn-out metal cutter later, the second fitting for the vertical...

The first fitting for the attachment of the vertical stabiliser spar has been made. That took a solid four days of focused metalworking...

The anchor for the forward vertical stabiliser mounting consists of three parts, each a welded construction made from CrMo sheet metal.

The past few weeks I spent, for a change, not in the workshop but on holiday. This doesn’t mean the project has come to a halt, though....

The control of the rudder tab is routed from the compensation mechanism via two deflection levers and three control rods to the...

Assembling the gearbox took longer than expected. The tapered pins for securing the cross lever are not available on this side of the...

The individual parts of the gearbox have been manufactured and some are already assembled.

The mechanism for controlling the trim tab on the rudder is causing issues. Only two drawings are available, which are far from...

The pulleys and cable guides in the landing gear compartment have been installed. The bases are made exceptionally sturdy. A size...

Small Pulleys, Big Effort. In the construction drawings, the cables for the elevon trim run along the right cockpit wall towards the...

According to the original drawings, all control cables were spliced. However, the lateral spacing of the cables was so tight that the...

With the installation of the last two control rods, the elevon control in the fuselage is now complete.

Two more control rods have been completed and installed. The required aluminium tube dimensions of 15.0 x 2.0 are no longer available....

More levers. The bearings for these levers are directly mounted on the support of the nose landing gear. However, this support only...

The levers connect the control system in the fuselage to the control rods in the wings. The short levers lead to the compensation tab on...

The control rods under the seat have been installed. Each rod consists of 16 individual parts. Riveting the end pieces gave me quite a...

The drive for the rudder compensation tab is routed through an inclined shaft at the rear of the fuselage. A bent lever is attached at...

The rudder cable control is routed from the left side of the fuselage to the central axis in the rear fuselage section. This is achieved...