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For now, I can only advise you to check the individual subsections yourself, as here and there I do add content (both text and pictures) at irregular intervals.
Project preparation - Unfortunately, the renovation of our new home side-tracked me for a a year or so. Only in November 2006 I could turn my attention to turning our garage into a workshop...
Controls - Elevator in front, flaperons on the rear main wing and rudders on the winglets. That'll do quite nicely!
Panel - The plane will be based in Germany, where experimentals cannot operate under IFR rules. So it's not much use to go far beyond a basic VFR panel...
landing gear - A wooden (ash) arch and a bucket full of hardware will set you up with the main gear. The front gear is a bit more involved though...
Canard wing - Like the wing, the box spar and ribs are conventional. The massive foam filling and the vacuum bagged plywood skin is not.
Propulsion - Yep, the engine is in the back, so this section isn't called 'firewall forward'. Now you know why ;)
Main wing - The swept back rear main wing is of conventional construction, at least the box spar and the ribs are...
Fuselage - A plywood covered wooden lattice structure, that's all there is to it. Well, sort of...
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