Cockpit Horizontal Stabilizer Tail 
Vintage Aviation News
SEPTEMBER 21, 2024
The restoration team removed, refurbished (or remade) and reinstalled each component from the original vertical stabilizer, one-at-a-time, so everything stayed in alignment, negating the need for a fixture. The team also applied a second coat of varnish to various wooden parts, along with the fuselage assembly and cockpit floor.
Aerotime
JULY 19, 2024
The aircraft was powered by three General Electric CF6 turbofan engines, with one mounted under each wing and a third located above the rear fuselage in the base of the tail. On scanning the engine instruments, it quickly became apparent that the number two tail-mounted engine had failed.
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Pilot's Life Blog
MARCH 15, 2024
Most Crucial Aircraft Components, From the Flight Crew to the Cockpit, Are in the Fuselage The body of an airplane is known as the fuselage. Pilots navigate the airplane forward in glass cockpits, which are located just over the aircraft’s nose. All of these primary control surfaces serve as a horizontal stabilizer for the plane.
Vintage Aviation News
SEPTEMBER 26, 2024
In March 1939, a new owner, Alhambra resident Warren Knox Layne, added a tailwheel to better operate from paved runways as opposed to the original tail skid. It shows that the aircraft had border stripes following the contours of its tail surfaces and wings, with a single stripe down the length of each side of the fuselage.
Vintage Aviation News
OCTOBER 24, 2024
The tail section, minus horizontal stabilizer, came from a crashed TF-104G that was found in an Ontario, California junkyard. The horizontal stabilizer came from a wrecked F-104G. The cockpit side panels came from the first production F-104A that crashed in 1956.
Pilot Institute
NOVEMBER 1, 2024
Remember that wings, propeller blades, and tail surfaces are airfoil-shaped. It most commonly forms on the leading edges of your aircraft, including the wings, tail, and horizontal stabilizer, as well as on the propeller blades and pitot tubes. Many aircraft have heated leading edges on the wings, tail, and propellers.
Vintage Aviation News
OCTOBER 31, 2024
Photo by Colin Hunter] “Mostly XR987 had been rewired with new electrical cabling and upgraded cockpit instruments to a slightly more modern standard. ” ZK-RAJ after having its overhauled horizontal stabilizers reinstalled in late September 2024. ” XR987 on display at Classic Flyers NZ in February 2021.
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