Total build time: 106 Hours
With the side panels complete, it’s back to fabricating more small assemblies before the next big assembly. The mixer mount is a fixture on the floor of the aft fuselage that will hold the mixer that combines pitch and yaw inputs from the pilot into the ruddervators.
The tail post is the Y-shaped fixture that will attach the stabilators to the rear of the fuselage tail cone.
With these and a few other parts complete, we’re accumulating quite a pile of loose parts… that means a big assembly is coming soon!