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Old 12-15-2013, 12:33 PM
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VincentJ
 
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Well my plans were to spend the entire day in the workshop, but mother nature had different plans for me. Spent half of the day either on one end of a snow shovel or snow blower...

I did manage to build the two elevator halves as you can see. I decided to skin them with 1/16" balsa for added strength. 1/2 oz. lead weight was epoxied in each counterbalance tip. As soon as the epoxy sets I will be able to skin the opposite side of the elevator. Once that is completed I can continue the sanding of the airfoil on the trailing edge of the stabilizer...
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