Apologies for no Tuesday edition - two separate side hustles kept me from the keyboard and sleep punched me in the face hard.
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Van's Service Letters - Alternate Engineering Solutions for Certain Laser Cut Parts
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Keeping it on the jack …Chukill PIREP
My solution for jacking my RV10. It was kept in the plane tool kit for field repairs. I tested it by jacking up one side and moving the wingtips VERY aggressively to simulate changing a tire outside in a tornado! I was unable to knock the plane off the jack as hard as I tried. Even if I was able to knock it off the jack, it would not damage anything.
Feel free to copy this tool. You don't really need to carry the small bottle jack as they are available everywhere.
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Fairings-Etc.com & Cranford Aviation
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36-14: play in right hand stick
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Riveting W-721 after performing the Aileron Hinge Service Bulletin
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Elevator counterbalance skin
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RV News That Caught My Eye Over The Last Few Hours ….dr
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Van's Service Letters - Alternate Engineering Solutions for Certain Laser Cut Parts
Van's Service Letters - Alternate Engineering Solutions for Certain Laser Cut Parts
This evening, Van's published four service letters for the RV-10 and RV-14/14A, for wing and fuselage kits/aircraft that are assembled with certain laser-cut parts. The engineering solutions described in the service letters provide alternatives to parts replacement, or in some cases provide...
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Keeping it on the jack …Chukill PIREP
My solution for jacking my RV10. It was kept in the plane tool kit for field repairs. I tested it by jacking up one side and moving the wingtips VERY aggressively to simulate changing a tire outside in a tornado! I was unable to knock the plane off the jack as hard as I tried. Even if I was able to knock it off the jack, it would not damage anything.
Feel free to copy this tool. You don't really need to carry the small bottle jack as they are available everywhere.
RV-10 fell off the jack!
I use a HF jack on a welded steel frame with homemade cup and cone into the tiedown hole. But it is important to angle the jack so the jack piston is perpendicular to the bottom of the wing or it will try to walk off. The angle changes as the wing goes up.
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Fairings-Etc.com & Cranford Aviation
*Announcement* Fairings-Etc.com & Cranford Aviation
Hi All, I just wanted to let everyone know, IT's OFFICIAL!.... Cranford Aviation Supply and Fairings-Etc.com are now One. (Cranford Aviation will be no more and I will be taking on the Fairings-Etc. name) The acquisition has been a work in progress since early this year and Steve Barnes...
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36-14: play in right hand stick
36-14: play in right hand stick
I’ve installed the control stick bases and elevator and aileron pushrods. I installed the left stick with both bolts (temporary nuts) and it was a nice slip fit into the control stick base. Needed just slight back and forth twisting to get it to slide in. The right hand side was quite loose -...
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Riveting W-721 after performing the Aileron Hinge Service Bulletin
Riveting W-721 after performing the Aileron Hinge Service Bulletin
Lesson learned - don't do this in the order of the RV-8 directions, or you'll end up with a single rivet in W-721 that you can't get to with a squeezer or bucking bar. Any ideas on a good structural blind rivet that I could substitute for the AN470-4-4 the plans are calling for here? I would...
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Elevator counterbalance skin
Elevator counterbalance skin
During the preliminary fitting of the elevator tip fairing, there is a gap between the forward part of the fairing and the E-913 counterbalance skin. Should I flatten the forward flange of the inner and outboard tip rib - E-903, 904, so that the counterbalance skin sits flatter? The fairing...
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Doug's Area ....The VAF News & my flying resume.
Pushed out every now and then.
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