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SE 1 One Year of Building

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Post date July 1, 2023
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A special episode looking back at one year of building.

I noted that when I was little, these things were called fins. That keeps going through my mind as I sand away at the filler and primer, staring at the metal structure. The fin is almost done. Fin tip is final sanded, and needs only one more coat of primer. Rudder tip primed with filling […]

More Rudder Tips

A lot of Bondo added to the tips, and again, 99% sanded off. Well, maybe not 99%. It takes a bit of thickness to get these lines to flow. More than the elevators. It’s looking good. Final sanding and primer tomorrow.

Rudder Tips

The past couple days have been two steps forward, one (or two) steps back. But it’s not awful. The first iteration of glass on the vertical stabilizer tip was flawed. Once it was glassed it was easy to see there wasn’t enough clearance. Rather than play games like I did on the horizontal stab, I […]

Rudder Fiberglass

Well, hopefully I can make shorter work out of the rudder fiberglass. The elevators and stabilizers took way longer than I’d like. The rudder pieces fit about as well as the others: not great. The vertical stabilizer tip doesn’t have a great line that flows into the rudder. It sits low and droops. I see […]