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Hi All,
A few months ago I acquired a '93 RV-4 in several boxes and have some questions.
The only thing on the plane assembled so far is the tail pieces by previous owner. Just the skins and the horizontal stabilizer is a L and R but not tied together. Also 'Factory' solid wing spars came with it.
As I understand from reading, it seems I should be doing the wings first.
Is it safe from a gross weight standpoint (I don't know the weight and balance) to try to add about 10 gallons of gas to each wing?
My thought is to add a wing rib with lightning holes and a second pick-up where the outboard tank wall is supposed to be to maintain wing structure at that station, and then put the outboard tank wall outboard of that by about 8" to get that extra few gallons of gas? I realize Experimental means I can do anything I want, but I'm not interested in going too far outside the box.
Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated, thanks in advance.
Travis
A few months ago I acquired a '93 RV-4 in several boxes and have some questions.
The only thing on the plane assembled so far is the tail pieces by previous owner. Just the skins and the horizontal stabilizer is a L and R but not tied together. Also 'Factory' solid wing spars came with it.
As I understand from reading, it seems I should be doing the wings first.
Is it safe from a gross weight standpoint (I don't know the weight and balance) to try to add about 10 gallons of gas to each wing?
My thought is to add a wing rib with lightning holes and a second pick-up where the outboard tank wall is supposed to be to maintain wing structure at that station, and then put the outboard tank wall outboard of that by about 8" to get that extra few gallons of gas? I realize Experimental means I can do anything I want, but I'm not interested in going too far outside the box.
Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated, thanks in advance.
Travis
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