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We left-off with Eric and I having just glued our tail feathers in-place. Tim didn’t bring his plane last time, so he had some catching-up to do.

Once he had caught-up, it was time to reinforce and fair the tail feathers into the fuselage. I used short lengths of a couple sizes of triangle-stock for approximately the first two-fifths back from the leading edge. I sanded them to the rough contours necessary to ensure a proper fit and strong glue bond between the compound curvatures due to the airfoiled stab and vertical fin; as well as a convex curvature to match the turtledeck. The rear section of the fairing is a narrow triangular strip of scrap 3/32” balsa sheet that I beveled inward towards the joint.






(Tim used longer strips of scrap 3/32” balsa sheet, fit together much wider at the LE, and still to a point at the TE -- without tri-stock. Sorry, no pics of his installation were taken.)

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