{"id":1072,"date":"2013-05-12T02:46:19","date_gmt":"2013-05-12T02:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/?p=1072"},"modified":"2013-12-18T04:43:12","modified_gmt":"2013-12-18T04:43:12","slug":"pin-the-tail-on-the-airplane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/?p=1072","title":{"rendered":"Pin the Tail on the Airplane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>6 hours.<\/p>\n<p>Last night I loaded the Xterra with all the leftover bits and pieces that didn&#8217;t get moved last weekend.   All the hardware, the small kit parts, various things in various boxes and the elevator push tube all went up to OXR with me this morning.   I spent about an hour unpacking and organizing, and intermittently chatting with folks who stopped by.   I met my other hangar mate Scott, and I met Jim, who owns the hangar and seems to know pretty much everything about the airport, and is a vast wealth of knowledge about experimental aircraft in general.   Once I&#8217;d shuffled things around a bit, I committed to installing the empennage, because it&#8217;s another one of those things I don&#8217;t want to have on shelves or leaning against something.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20130511-194527.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" alt=\"20130511-194527.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20130511-194527.jpg\" \/><\/a>Here, I&#8217;ve got the horizontal stabilizer and elevators installed.   I had actually forgotten to do a rivet on the HS when I rebuilt the front spar attach bracket, so I did that today.   The vertical stabilizer and the rudder also went on, but I have to torque the bolts on the rudder.    Also, I need to find the linkage for the tailwheel chain, otherwise steering is going to be interesting.   Once I got everything installed, I discovered that the layers of paint on the elevator tips brings it into contact with the tip on the HS.  Same with the rudder and VS, so there will be some sanding in the near future.   It&#8217;s not too bad though, and everything else seems to be pretty good.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20130511-194542.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" alt=\"20130511-194542.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20130511-194542.jpg\" \/><\/a>Here&#8217;s a shot of all the roommates: The Luscombe, the RV9, and my -7.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20130511-194554.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" alt=\"20130511-194554.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20130511-194554.jpg\" \/><\/a>The last thing I did today was connect the push tube back up to the bellcrank.   The stick now operates the elevators, and that is as it should be.<\/p>\n<p>Next time, I need to remember to bring an extension cord and a power strip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>6 hours. Last night I loaded the Xterra with all the leftover bits and pieces that didn&#8217;t get moved last weekend. All the hardware, the small kit parts, various things in various boxes and the elevator push tube all went up to OXR with me this morning. I spent about an hour unpacking and organizing, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1072"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1094,"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072\/revisions\/1094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}