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Originally Posted by JDBoston
I chose to follow the manual and not add anything, thanks for all the opinions.
Scott: I will also take care to get the bends correct for the leading edge so there is very little load on the skins themselves which may induce cracking on that first set of rivets in the stiffeners.
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This is less critical on the RV-14 (and 10) because the stiffeners are physically tied together at the fwd end and can't flex at the first rivet as much as they can on the other models.
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Scott McDaniels
Van's Aircraft Engineering Prototype Shop Manager
Hubbard, Oregon
RV-6A (aka "Junkyard Special ")
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