Construction of the aircraft is going swiftly as it isn’t as much work as I initially expected.

This time I started with the motor mount. It’s made of a square piece of foam with a transparent piece of plastic on each side for strength and so the bolts and nuts have something to hold on to.

Then I cut out a pair of wing stabilizers. These are needed for extra air stability as well as to improve the stiffness of the wing.

These stabilizers only improve stiffness in one direction, while the other direction can still have a lot of flexing going on. To mitigate this I glued some bbq skewers on the back of the wing. A single bbq skewer wasn’t long enough, so I taped two together. Glued that on the wing and then covered it up with tape.

Now I took the rear of the fuselage and glued 2 blocks of foam to it to make it easier to glue it on the wing standing up, without having to support it with some more bbq skewers.

While the glue on the rear of the fuselage was drying up I cut out these two triangles to use as angle leads to attach the tail fins.

And then I put the rear of the fuselage onto the wing.

I let this dry up for a few moments and then I put on the first of the two tail fins. At first I wanted to put both on at the same time, but this proved to be quite difficult, so I scratched that plan.

This has to dry up good, before I’m going to put on the other tail fin.