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Horizontal Stabilizer position

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I am building my horizontal Stab and started looking at the fuselage attachment. Station 137 is about 3/4 of an inch too far back. If I maintain the 7 1/4 trailing edge to the tail post dimension, the front bushings at 23 3/16 are in the middle of the cross tube at sta 137 (they are supposed to be on the aft side). I have a couple of options 1) cut the cross tube out and move forward 3/4, 2) move the stab back 3/4 with the trailing edge to tail post dimension 6 1/2 (instead of 7 1/4), 3) make the stabilizer narrower by 3/4 (22 9/16 instead of 23 3/16) or 4) put bushings through center of sta 137 cross tube with extra reinforcement. Anybody else had this issue and what did you do. Waiting to hear back from Steen.
 

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