Center of Gravity Hangar Rudder 
Plane and Pilot
MARCH 2, 2025
Its owned by Lee Smith, 69, who keeps it hangared at Long Island Airpark (NC26), in North Carolina. The Robin has a placard that reads: Rudder in fully opposed direction; Elevator control pulled fully back; Ailerons in neutral position. A hint of the Robins aerobatic pretensions might be the size of the rudder.
Plane and Pilot
OCTOBER 3, 2024
An elegantly simple rope system inside the fuselage raises and lowers the Gweduck’s water rudder mounted inside the base of the main rudder (right). At that point the project is trucked 5 miles to the Prineville Airport where final assembly takes place in a hangar. I think I’d have figured out the trick in another couple hours.
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