Test fit of the canard sanding the fuselage to get the correct angle of attack.

I decided to make my tabs out of plywood, I know some have used Clark foam but I liked the idea of wood.

Here you can see the tab and tab pad on F22 which I had to build up with 6 layer to get the canard square with the fuselage. The aluminum is there as a spacer for the build up after final fitting. As some other builders did I removed some foam in this area and used flox to fill. I this way I can still do some dialing in later on during finishing. The F22 bushing will be installed in Chap. 13 during the nose build.

With the flox pad still green I set the canard in place until cure, this makes for a perfect fit with no gaps.

Here you can see the finish tab and the angle I had to sand into the elevator to have it clear the fuselage as call out for in the book. I did not finish the end of the elevator because I wanted to wait until finishing, where the build up of Super Fill may require some additional sanding.

On to Chapter 13