Sonex Tail Fairings
Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2015 7:34 pmI’m not quite happy with the look of my tail fairings. Not sure what it is, they just don’t seem produce a very “smooth” (for lack of a better work) look in that area. Perhaps it’s the sheet metal screws screws, not sure.
As you can see I slightly deviated from the plans as I do not have the front lip under the turtledeck skin. The first ones I made (this is the third set) were like that but I found that too look even more odd and it left a small gap between the VS and the skin/fairing.
Perhaps painting will make it all look better? (For those who have not followed my build, I started polishing but have since decided to paint instead, hence the polished tail and unpolished fuselage).
I do now understand why some go through the effort of making one big single piece fibreglass fairing, looks much better indeed.
Perhaps I might still do that at a later stage but for now I want to get to the flying stage first ;-)
Anyway, I’m not particularly looking for any advice or anything here, I think I have the fairings as good as I’ll ever get them, just wanted to share my findings:
As you can see I slightly deviated from the plans as I do not have the front lip under the turtledeck skin. The first ones I made (this is the third set) were like that but I found that too look even more odd and it left a small gap between the VS and the skin/fairing.
Perhaps painting will make it all look better? (For those who have not followed my build, I started polishing but have since decided to paint instead, hence the polished tail and unpolished fuselage).
I do now understand why some go through the effort of making one big single piece fibreglass fairing, looks much better indeed.
Perhaps I might still do that at a later stage but for now I want to get to the flying stage first ;-)
Anyway, I’m not particularly looking for any advice or anything here, I think I have the fairings as good as I’ll ever get them, just wanted to share my findings:
