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09-18-2008, 05:15 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Keller, TX
Posts: 151
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More than RV's
All the Hawker 125 jets have a rubber strip that goes between the upper wing fairing and wing that is bonded to the plank with aerodynamic sealer. Occasionally a section of this will come unbonded. Just as the aircraft rotates, the high pressure under the wing and in the wheel wells combined with low pressure on top makes it buzz in the worst kind of way - kinda like a woopie cushion! It can sure make a passenger come unglued.
We once had one of our crews shutting down engines one at a time thinking they had one of them coming apart. It's funny what being scared will make you do.
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09-18-2008, 05:20 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Atlanta, GA
Posts: 2,295
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Count me in for this club. I had the same thing happen to me...on about my fourth flight! Luckily I happened to have a chase pilot and I asked him if he saw anything come lose and he spotted the rubber flopping around.
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09-18-2008, 05:34 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Concord, NC
Posts: 92
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Securing that gap strip
I found that pliobond on a well cleaned, oil free part has kept the strip on for 350+ hours. I also drilled through both the strip and metal at the end and secured with .032 safetywire. Two small passes through both, you can't see it. No movement.
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09-18-2008, 07:57 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Tulsa, OK
Posts: 40
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Never had that experience, but......
Thanks for the warning!
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09-18-2008, 10:03 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Dayton, NV
Posts: 57
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That hurt!
I can't tell you how much that hurt when that happened to me! Louise had just lifted me off from the College Station airport when I started feeling that thing slap against my belly. Beaten with a rubber strip! I was scared that Louise had found out about my earlier antics and was punishing me!
I heard Louise talk to the tower and tell them that she thought she had left the oil fill door open and needed to return. On the ground, she just tucked it back in. She and Paul put some Pliobond on once we got home and I'm feeling a little more secure now. 
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RV6 born flying in April 1990 (4th kit out of the factory)
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09-18-2008, 11:53 AM
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Join Date: May 2005
Location: Canby, Oregon
Posts: 1,786
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So is this a tail-dragger issue?
My intersection fairing seem to hold mine in place.
Kent
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09-18-2008, 05:32 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Flagstaff, AZ
Posts: 447
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Weatherstripping
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Originally Posted by kentb
My intersection fairing seem to hold mine in place.
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....So far  .... This is one to look at with all RV's with that rubber strip.
I'm going to tie this "loose end" with pliobond.
"The Weatherstripper" is acually a solo drum act... push the knob all-the-way-in and he'll get real loud
Thanks
Brad- RV6A ?drummer?
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08-22-2020, 02:19 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: LSGY
Posts: 3,201
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wing root fairing rubber strip
What's the current wisdom on the best solution to this problem? Mine is not banging, but sounds like ball bearings in the engine.
https://youtu.be/2FE5YXUjm8c
I'm thinking of taping over the whole thing with some duct tape - tried electrical tape and it blew off in the first few minutes.
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08-22-2020, 02:46 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2016
Location: Greenville, SC
Posts: 474
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Yep, been there with both the Hawker and our RV-8.
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08-22-2020, 02:51 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2018
Location: LSZF
Posts: 421
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Mickey, watched your vid... would now try a strip of HST, better adhering properties, and better looks  , don’t forget to use some soft shape, like the end of a screwdriver, to iron it down to shape.
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If it ain’t no help we’ll swop aircraft 
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