Remove Cockpit Remove Firewall Remove Horizontal Stabilizer
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Nothing Small About It

Plane and Pilot

Pretty much the only metal parts are the landing gear legs, stainless firewalls, engine mounts, engines and hardware. Just recognizable in the background is a horizontal stabilizer and one-piece elevator. I’d like the cockpit modernized to make the systems a bit simpler and to group the controls a bit better.

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Plane and Pilot

The previous CTs had a stabilator for pitch, where the new F2 uses a more conventional elevator and fixed horizontal stabilizer. With the F2, the rudder and vertical stabilizer are changed, with the rudder becoming a much smaller surface than before. Out back, theres an entirely new tail.

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