{"id":141,"date":"2008-01-16T14:00:12","date_gmt":"2008-01-16T20:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/?p=141"},"modified":"2015-01-28T06:05:50","modified_gmt":"2015-01-28T12:05:50","slug":"3-4-5-elevator-hinge-installation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/16\/3-4-5-elevator-hinge-installation\/","title":{"rendered":"3.4.5 &#8211; Elevator Hinge Installation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pps-series-post-details pps-series-post-details-variant-classic pps-series-post-details-4068\" data-series-id=\"27\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-content\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-text\">This entry is part 1 of 3 in the series <a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/series\/03-canard-elevator\/\">03 - Canard \/ Elevator<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><p>Next I mounted the four hinges to the two elevators. The elevators are mounted at the rear of the canard. When the control stick is pulled back, the elevators are deflected down which increases lift at the canard (airplane goes up).<\/p>\n<p>Two holes are drilled in the hinge. Then structural epoxy is applied to the hinge and it&#8217;s riveted to the elevator. Finally, another hole is drilled between the two rivets and a screw and nut are used to further hold it in place.<\/p>\n<p>This is the area of the elevator that the hinge gets attached to.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve already sanded the primer and filler away from the carbon fiber and drilled the holes for the rivets.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/2008-01-16-1010-IMG_5739.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-2023\" src=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/2008-01-16-1010-IMG_5739-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"2008-01-16 1010 IMG_5739\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is one of the hinge brackets riveted, glued and screwed in place.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_5743.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-143\" title=\"IMG_5743\" src=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_5743-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here are both elevators with the four hinge brackets on each elevator.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_5742.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-142\" title=\"IMG_5742\" src=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_5742-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pps-series-post-details pps-series-post-details-variant-classic pps-series-post-details-4068 pps-series-meta-excerpt\" data-series-id=\"27\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-content\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-text\">This entry is part 1 of 3 in the series <a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/series\/03-canard-elevator\/\">03 - Canard \/ Elevator<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><p>Next I mounted the four hinges to the two elevators. The elevators are mounted at the rear of the canard. When the control stick is pulled back, the elevators are deflected down which increases lift at the canard (airplane goes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/16\/3-4-5-elevator-hinge-installation\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"series":[27],"class_list":["post-141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5","series-03-canard-elevator"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2024,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions\/2024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}