Elevators, Vertical Stab

The elevators were mounted and hooked up. This was not without an issue with drilling, in which the holes in the elevator horn came too close to the edge and had to be fill welded shut for another shot at drilling.

elevators and vertical stabilizers on airframe

The vertical stab was also first trial fit, then mounted to the deck of the fuselage. This was a bit of a tricky process of trimming spars to fit and later riveting and bolting this thing into place.

intersection of horizontal, vertical stabilizers on the RV-7

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