Legal Eagle XL Buildlog

Building a Legal Eagle XL Ultralight Airplane

Airplane Section: Empennage

Building Rudder Control Horn

Building Rudder Control Horn

Built the control horn for my rudder with my brother while he was visiting! I decided to build the control horn and when we got into it realized I was missing the lower elevator aluminum support that it is supposed to mount too! Not sure how I missed adding that so ended up adding that […]

Empennage aluminum complete

Empennage aluminum complete

Finally manage to get the tail section complete – at least all the framing part of it. At this time I probably will not use what I created since that was included with the frame/engine project I purchased but since I had started I did want to complete. The reason I am using the existing […]

Building some rudder and elevator hinges

Building some rudder and elevator hinges

Ok, time to start doing something other than building the wings. going to move on the working on the tail section assembly and decided to break out the welder for the first time for this project and make the hinge parts for the rudder and elevator assemblies. This was a fairly straight forward process of […]