
Mixing gear
The gear is coming along. The parts are manufactured, some assembled already.
The gear is coming along. The parts are manufactured, some assembled already.
The mixing gear for the rudder compensation tab is giving issues. There are only two blueprints at hand of the entire unit. Which is clearly
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
With the last control rods installed the elevon controls in the fuselage are complete.
Two more control rods were finished and installed. The tubing dimension of 15.0 x 2.0mm in the required quality is no longer available . It
Further pivot links. These links are mounted directly onto the housing of the nose landing gear shaft assembly. That housing is not fabricated yet, but
These pivot links connect the fuselage control rods to the control rods leading into the wings. The base is from welded CrMo sheet metal bolted
The rods lead under the seat from the control stick assembly backwards to the first pivoting link. Each control links is made of 16 single