To our total dismay, Stratford, Brutus and I found that the vertical stabilizer was twisted, that is, not aligned with the center of the fuselage and even more worrying, was leaning to the left. We consulted with the Glasair factory, but this many years after, I don't know what they said. I do now we decided to keep the fuselage since shipping this one back to Arlington, Washington, and having them ship us another was out of the question. So, we came up with a partial fix which we hope will allow us to have a reasonably properly rigged airplane after we straighten and un-twisted the vertical as much as we could.

Our fix was to attach timbers to the ceiling of the 3-car garage and then timbers vertically downward so we would have a rigid anchor against which we could twist the vertical fin. To make it much easier to twist and push to the right the fin, Stratford brought his Sawsall from home, crawled into the tail cone, and sawed Bulklead B in half vertically. It was tricky work!

Then, we placed a laser atop the vertical and shined the beam on the center all-white garage door.