Satya's blog - Tomcat stabilisers and rudders

The balsa F14 stabilisers and rudders were pinned to the plan and built. They're just flat bits. Then I made a mistake. I added the parts R4 to the stabilisers like this:


But they're meant for the rudders! By the time I realised this the R4s has bonded to the stabilisers. So I traced them onto some spare balsa sheet cut them out, and sanded them to shape. Then I sanded off the incorrect R4s from the stabilisers and glued the new ones to the rudders.


Notice that the rudders are "pointy" in "front" while the stabilisers have an extra angle at the "back".

Last updated: Jan 22 2006 09:56