I had one of those nasty flap retraction problems where the leading edge of the flap catches the trailing edge of the wing top skin and creates damage to both. I believe this was caused by someone putting way to much weight on the flap and I did not catch it during preflight. I have rigged them so they don't go down so far to prevent this faom happening again, I hope!
I got the wing top skin repaired but the flap leading edge has a new curve radius to it that probably cannot be fixed without reskinning it, or just replacing the flap. It had straightend out some and when I tried to recurve it via twisting it with a pipe it did not put the curve back to it's original arc, so it doesn't make good contact with the upper skin like it used to. It is probably just fine as it is but one of those things I will want to do something about before painting.
I am wondering how much a replacement flap would cost. Anybody have a right hand flap for RV7 laying around that they want to sell?
Van's might sell one also, I will have to check with them.
Randy C
I got the wing top skin repaired but the flap leading edge has a new curve radius to it that probably cannot be fixed without reskinning it, or just replacing the flap. It had straightend out some and when I tried to recurve it via twisting it with a pipe it did not put the curve back to it's original arc, so it doesn't make good contact with the upper skin like it used to. It is probably just fine as it is but one of those things I will want to do something about before painting.
I am wondering how much a replacement flap would cost. Anybody have a right hand flap for RV7 laying around that they want to sell?
Van's might sell one also, I will have to check with them.
Randy C