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Building a Legal Eagle XL Ultralight Airplane

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  • Wing
  • Empennage
  • Avionics
  • Fuselage
  • Landing Gear
  • Planning
  • CAD Design
  • Build Intro/Info

Airplane Section: Empennage

Tail and Rudder section

Fabric, painting, and reassembly – Fuselage and Tail group

Fabric, painting, and reassembly – Fuselage and Tail group

June 30, 2020 By Chris

Been working on getting the fuselage back together after covering the front part of the fuselage with fabric along with painting it. I have decidedRead More

Fabric covering tail parts

Fabric covering tail parts

April 25, 2020 By Chris

Over the last couple of weeks, I have been working on covering my tail parts of my Legal Eagle XL. I first had to doRead More

Building Rudder Control Horn

Building Rudder Control Horn

September 18, 2019 By Chris

Built the control horn for my rudder with my brother while he was visiting! I decided to build the control horn and when we gotRead More

Assemble Elevator along with building a new horn

Assemble Elevator along with building a new horn

September 10, 2019 By Chris

Using the elevator that I built per plans because the ones that came with the fuselage had a very wide gap between the two thatRead More

Empennage aluminum complete

Empennage aluminum complete

August 19, 2019 By Chris

Finally manage to get the tail section complete – at least all the framing part of it. At this time I probably will not useRead More

Working with aluminum – building rudder

Working with aluminum – building rudder

May 27, 2019 By Chris

Build all my tail assembly starting with the rudder. After some reading about the process, I started layout on my workbench after doing some cleanupRead More

Building some rudder and elevator hinges

Building some rudder and elevator hinges

May 10, 2019 By Chris

Ok, time to start doing something other than building the wings. going to move on the working on the tail section assembly and decided toRead More

Aircraft Build Time

Airplane sectionBuild time (hrs)
CAD Design9
Empennage81
Firewall forward24
Flight Test10
Fuselage92
Landing Gear26
Planning11
Wing276
Total529

Recent Posts

  • Status – basically complete
  • Telemetry
  • Throttle Linkage
  • Connect fuel system
  • Painting wings – finished

Recent Comments

  • Chris on Doing Some CAD – Part 1
  • Chris on CAD Image Gallery
  • Chris on Fabricate and attach top wing mounts
  • Chris on Status – basically complete
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