Title: Empennage fairing
1. Finished sanding the edges of the new carbon fiber layups to match the underlying layers. 2. Sanded the faces of the fairing to get them as smooth as I could. 3. Taped the fairing in place and carefully marked and trimmed the aft edges. I left enough room for the control access cover to almost butt up against the fairing. 4. Trimmed the edges of the aluminum control cover to match the carbon fiber fairing. 5. Beveled the front lower edge of the fairing some more, to decrease its thickness. 6. Planned the locations of the attach screws. There will be one screw on each side at the front of the top fairing, and two on each side at the back. The big challenge will be installing a Click Bond nutplate inside the fuselage at the two forward locations. I may have to use a nutsert if I can't get it done any other way. 7. Slightly repositioned the ELT antenna attach point in the aft fuselage. Moved the free end of the antenna so it crosses over from left to right inside the void. This will give a bit more room for the fairing caps. 8. Cut out two aft fairing caps from 3/4" Divinycell foam and fitted them to the inside radius of the aft end of the fairing. These will be bonded in there shortly. 9. Filled the aft upper corner of the fairing on the left side with resin, then clamped it overnight. (This is a small area that hadn't bonded correctly the first time.) 10. Mixed some micro and cabosil to the remaining resin, and painted it onto the fairing in several locations that had small imperfections. After these areas are sanded again, I think this will give the surfaces of the fairing a good chance of being completely smoothed out when I apply the UV SmoothPrime filler later.


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