Vertical Stabilizer Skeleton

 When assembling the vertical stabilizer spars, it is noted in the manual which holes to NOT rivet as that is where the ribs will attach later in the process.   

Rivnuts are installed on the rear spar doubler angle.  Needed to drill holes to 6 mill, in preparation.  

At this stage, for the first time, I had considered what, if anything, I might want to do for cameras on the tail.  After some research with the help of Vernon in R&D, I left with some camera options to explore.  Turned out the most interesting one had a price tag of $14K to the distributor, so that was out, and I found some alternative that I may want to consider.  The trick now was to determine how to future-proof the build by including all the potential wires I could need. 

On consulting some camera manufactures and other trusted sources, we decided to put in two 75 ohm coax cables and a 2 core wire for power.  Then we discussed how to install the wires in a way that they will not interfere with the swing arm and keep them apart to ensure no interference.   Should we choose to, one coax feed could go to our G3X or other monitor for display, the other to a DVR.  

Consequently, we await the arrival of the coax cables which may hold up skinning the Vertical Stabilizer.  Another options is to put a bracket up on the tail and install an action camera, but that could add drag and would prefer to have an integrated camera in the VS.