Trying to visualize the install on an Archer Wingtip Comm antenna. Apparently the NAV antenna lays flat but the COMM version has to be more horizontal. The instructions are pretty clear until it gets to the point where is says to install flat like a NAV but then bend the antenna up into the horizontal plane of the wingtip.
I think what I understand is that you bend it just outside of where it slips between the wingtip and the wing. That makes it about 45 degrees up to the outside upper edge of the tip. The long part of the antenna then lays flat on the top side of the wingtip. Not sure exactly how you keep it up there while the whole thing flexes either?
If anyone has any pictures of a COMM install in one of the later model RV6/7/8 wingtips, I would sure appreciate seeing them. In particular if you have one showing the "bend" and how you supported it.
All help appreciated!
Thanks Bill S
7a finishing
I think what I understand is that you bend it just outside of where it slips between the wingtip and the wing. That makes it about 45 degrees up to the outside upper edge of the tip. The long part of the antenna then lays flat on the top side of the wingtip. Not sure exactly how you keep it up there while the whole thing flexes either?
If anyone has any pictures of a COMM install in one of the later model RV6/7/8 wingtips, I would sure appreciate seeing them. In particular if you have one showing the "bend" and how you supported it.
All help appreciated!
Thanks Bill S
7a finishing