September 6, 2004

I finally got to mounting the empennage today too. This is the final time. I put a dobbin of RTV on the end of the ELT antenna so it sticks in the vertical stabiliser and doesn’t wear through the aluminium over time bouncing around in there. I mounted it on the rear deck, pointing up through one of the lightening holes in the VS.

Here’s a shot of the final mounting. I also got the elevators lined up properly and torqued everything to spec. 25 in-lbs on those AN3’s doesn’t seem like enough sometimes! The HS has been collecting a lot of dust these past two years!