Small Pulleys, Big Effort. In the construction drawings, the cables for the elevon trim run along the right cockpit wall towards the...

According to the original drawings, all control cables were spliced. However, the lateral spacing of the cables was so tight that the...

With the installation of the last two control rods, the elevon control in the fuselage is now complete.

Two more control rods have been completed and installed. The required aluminium tube dimensions of 15.0 x 2.0 are no longer available....

More levers. The bearings for these levers are directly mounted on the support of the nose landing gear. However, this support only...

The levers connect the control system in the fuselage to the control rods in the wings. The short levers lead to the compensation tab on...

The control rods under the seat have been installed. Each rod consists of 16 individual parts. Riveting the end pieces gave me quite a...

The drive for the rudder compensation tab is routed through an inclined shaft at the rear of the fuselage. A bent lever is attached at...

The rudder cable control is routed from the left side of the fuselage to the central axis in the rear fuselage section. This is achieved...

The control stick of the Arbalète contains the entire mixing mechanism for the elevons and is made up of 44 individual parts. The...

Pulleys in the required original size made from phenolic resin are no longer available. So, the only option left was to manufacture the...

A little masterpiece. Noble pine wood, laminated, grooved, and painted, with one side covered by a flanged aluminium sheet. This is more...

No, this is not the control room of a steamship. Here, the rudder control is routed via sprockets to the left side of the fuselage. The...

To install the control stick supports, the longerons had to be cut out in a semicircle. This meant manual work. First, roughly cut out...

A new chapter begins: the installation of the control elements. Here, too, each part has to be manufactured individually.

All the longerons are installed, the final corner strip is glued in, the contour has been uniformly fine-sanded, and the fuselage frame...

The upper main longerons and the forming stringers in the cockpit area have been glued in place along with the corner strips. The front...

The upper fuselage longerons are the longest components that need to be made in one piece. As a result, the table with the mould where...

All the corner strips are glued in, the contour is sanded, and the fuselage bottom is finished to the point where the top can now be...

Each fuselage longeon must be planed and sanded to the fuselage contour. By hand, with the help of form templates that were created on...