Today I worked on the elevator rigging, and most of the work is taking place in the cabin. First I installed the smaller of the two pushrods. It is a bit tricky to install, and I still have to insert some washers on the bolts.



Here is the bellcrank, the rod from the cabin is bolted to the lower hole, and the upper hole gets the big rod going to the elevator. It took quite a while to have everything in place, and I still have to bolt everything.



The stick is not vertical with the elevators in neutral position, I don't know if it's normal or not. I'll check on other websites, and I can then modify the rigging a bit.



I then had a better look at the rudder rigging and did some work on the rudder stops.

The empennage installation goes on. First with the drilling not done yesterday. Here, the part riveted to the veritcal stab's forward spar and bolted to the horizontal tab's forward spar. The joggle in the part allows the front of the vertical stab to be offset to the left, to counter the propwash.



After having reinstalled the vertical stab, four holes are drilled, they will allow to bolt the rear spar of the vertical stab to rear bulkhead of the fuselage.



Here a picture with all the parts in place. A fairing will be fitted later in the building.



Then I begin installing the rudder stops. The plans are known to be inaccurate, so I only cut the aluminium angle. The angle will then have to be cut so as the green parts touches the angle when the rudder is at full travel.

Today I begun the installation of the empennage. First the horizontal parts get reassembled upside down on the workbench. The first task is to drill the elevator control horns (the greyish part at the center of the controls).



After the drilling of the first side, I use a predrilled wooden block to transfer the hole to the second part.



The horizontal stab gets installed to the fuselage. First the forward longeron with the drilling of four holes , the two outer holes need to be carefully drilled as they have to go through the fuselage longeron too.
The rear spar is easier, the four outer holes in the background had there holes predrilled.



Then I installed the vertical stab, as for the horizontal stab, lots of measurements and adjustments have to be made to get the right position.



Then the elevator stop is installed as the vertical stab will be bolted there.



The forward spar of the vertical stab will be bolted to the forward spar of the horizontal stab via the aluminium color part in the picture. I still have to drill it.

Only one hour in the workshop. The fuel and brake lines have to be isolated from the cabin floor. I have not decided how to do this, but before finding an answer, I decide to install soundproofing floor mats from Spruce. I only had to cut the mat delivered by Spruce. The mat is a vinyl mat with foam backing. The picture shows the two different colored sides as I didn't know which side should be up.

Today I riveted the remaining parts of the forward fusleage : the flap motor support and the subpanel. Still a lot of nutplates to rivet. Some rivets are easier to install using the C-frame and the rivet gun rather than the squeezer.



A picture of all the parts riveted today.