Monday, January 01, 2007
Aligning the elevators.
I have set the elevators up in trail in anticipation of drilling the hole in the horn that will lock them together as one. I have done this in two ways:
- i) I aligned them at the front with the HS.
ii) It occurred to me that there is a point on the center line of the aircraft that both elevator trailing edges point to when they are aligned.
The tip of piano hinge in the pictures, is that point. Clearly both methods should give the same result, and it seems they do, but this second method seems to ensure that it is least likely that there is any aerodynamic contradiction between the two.
I am now only bothered as to how to drill the elevator horns, so when it is all bolted up tight, they remain in this relative position.
Labels: HS elevators
