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Assembly so far has been pretty much a matter of just following the manual. Everything fits and everything is included. I did make one significant change, however. The tail section comes separate from the main body of the fuselage in the shipping box. These two parts are supposed to be epoxied together. But the combined length of the full fuselage, rudder, and engine would make storing this beast almost impossible. So i chose to make the tail unit removable. This mod was fairly straight forward since the rudder and elevator servos are located in the tail and there was already a good tongue-in-groove type connection between the two parts. I beefed that up with some light ply on the inside (with four T-nuts on each side, each epoxied in place) and a 1.5mm ply "washer plate" on the outside. This seems to do the job but I might beef it up a bit more on the top and bottom. We'll see.
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