There's a questionmark in the title of this page because it's not realy building. Assembly would be a better word.

After I had re-taped the rudder and elevator (see First Impressions) , I trial fitted the elevator to the fuse.
To make the elevator stab fit onto the fuse, a small piece of EPP has to be removed,
which is not mentioned in the instructions.

It's a tight fit but, when eyeballed from the front, the elevator doesn't seem to be straight.
A little bit of sanding with an emory board solved that problem.

When pressing the two wingroots together I noticed quite a gap between the two.

It turned out that both wingroots are slightly rounded. I don't know how important this
will be in the grand scheme of things, but I'd like them to be a tight fit when taped together.
So also here I applied a few minutes of elbow grease.

When you hold the wing up against the light you can see the carbon rod, about 1/3 into the wing.

Quite a bit more dihedral then I'm used to, but probably needed because of the absence of ailerons.

Do my eyes deceive me, or does the elevatorstab have some negative incidence (or is it positive,
I don't remember, I was asleep in class at the time). It looks like the stab's LE is lower than the TE.

Looks pretty though, doesn't it?

I forgot to show you this. An extra nose cone with a pre-drilled hole (I assume for aerotowing),
two pieces of doublesided self adhesive foam (probably for the battery and Rx),and two tooth-picks.
The tooth-picks are mentioned in the instructions sheet, to be used to fasten the elevator to the fuse.
The other items' use is left to your imagination.

This is how you're meant to use the toothpicks, the KISS way. Neato!

CG marked at 9 1/2"

Fiber tape on the wings' LE.

And some coloured packingtape for visibility.

I didn't have any standard sized servos lying around, and since I don't use them at all
in any of any of my planes and my LHS doesn't stock them either, andsince he is totally geared
towards electric/glider flight, I got a set of GWS Nano STD servos. These are obviously smaller
then standard servos, so I had to make a little modification in the cockpit.
I cut two pieces of 1mm light ply, but noticed the servo would still be too low, so
I cut another piece of 1mm balsa (same size). I glued these together with some woodglue, and then
epoxied them in place.

Once the epoxy had cured, I screwed in the servos, centered them, attached the (cut down)servo arms
to the (pre-bend) pushrods, then pushed the servo arms in place, and lightly screwed
the servo arm in place.

The other end of the pushrods had the familiar "screw-to-size-attachement", so I turned the
clevis untill it was in line with the control horn, and attached the clevis. The clevis comes
with a piece if plastic tubing to lock the clevis closed. Then all that needed to be done
was postioning the battery and Rx in the cockpit, and routing the antenna towards the rear.

To prevent throwing the glider into the abyss, and then finding out I didn't set the Tx on
the right model, I've scribbled the model number inside the cockpit. Now I don't have any excuse...

Now all I need to do is wait for a good western wind, and time off to coincide, and you'll find me at the Mediteranean cliffs!

Adding ailerons

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