Tail Construction

I need to add more pictures to detail the trim and control system, but the picture at right shows some major components. The elevator horn is well illustrated. I built a solid spacer out of aluminum as on the Pitts that fits between the two horns. As drawn on the plans, the rod end bearing is all that holds the two elevators togethe, and allows for slight movement between the two. The the spacer/bushing solidly bolts the two halves together and allows the rod end to do it's job. A note on the plans–Skybolt plans are raher bare bones. I purchased a set of Acrosport 2 plans, and Pitts S1-S plans from Aviat. These are excellant reference mterials. The Aviat plans are actual factory construction plans and extremely detailed. While there is a lot of difference among the three aircraft, there is still a lot of valuable stuff in there, and at least shows different ways to accomplish the same thing.

To the right of the stabilizer trailing edge, is the trim push bellcrank and rods, that go through bushings partway out on the stab.

below is a picure of a Schweizer 1-36 is used to own–it's filling space 'till I get more detailed shots of the trim system and torque tube.