have a question about building the Phoenix Extra 330S ARF 60 -90. While assembling the ARF, I noticed the the stabilizer in the kit that I have appears to have been assembled with the portion that mounts to the fuselage upside down.

The relatively flat surface that exactly matches the shape of the cutout in the fuselage is coated with red white and blue Oracover and the curved surface that matches shape of the cutout of the rudder block is coated with gray Oracover.

If I attempt to mount the stabilizer with the multicolor side on top, the incidence angle for the stabilizer is in question, since a curved surface of the stabilizer is placed against the flat surface of the fuselage.

I called Hobbico and described my issue and they kindly sent me another tail set. Unfortunately, the second stabilizer is build exactly like the first one and still has the problem of indeteriminant incidence angle.

At this point, I'm not sure if it's just me doing something wrong or that there is a production run problem with the kit.

I can borrow an incidence meter and set the stabilizer up to have the same incidence when mounted multicolor side up as it has when mounted inverted. There will be a lot of epoxy filling the gaps. The airfoil of the stabilizer and elevator look reasonably symmetric, so I believe that will not be an issue either way.

And my question.................

Has anyone else noted this issue or am I just doing something wrong?

Pete


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