lucaperazzolli
Well Known Member
Last Saturday I went to the Italian annual EAA meeting, it was a great VFR day and I spent all the time with old friends talking about our aircraft stories.
The italian RV community is growing and building precision too, but ...
next to my airplane was parked a new RV-7, the judges were investigating for the annual prize and a crowd of people was talking around.
I saw a strange 'position' of the rudder and when the plane was alone, I took a look more precisely.
Here are some photos and you can see that the rudder was installed too far from its natural position with few rudder bearing threads into the nutplate ( SAFETY CONCERN ! );
as reference I placed two pictures (white rudder) with a standard rudder installation (as per plans).
Just for curiosity´s sake, I checked the elevator and I verified that with one in its zero incidence position the other was higher of 5 degrees !
I walked away, scratching my head….
What would you have done in this case ?
The italian RV community is growing and building precision too, but ...
next to my airplane was parked a new RV-7, the judges were investigating for the annual prize and a crowd of people was talking around.
I saw a strange 'position' of the rudder and when the plane was alone, I took a look more precisely.
Here are some photos and you can see that the rudder was installed too far from its natural position with few rudder bearing threads into the nutplate ( SAFETY CONCERN ! );
as reference I placed two pictures (white rudder) with a standard rudder installation (as per plans).
Just for curiosity´s sake, I checked the elevator and I verified that with one in its zero incidence position the other was higher of 5 degrees !
I walked away, scratching my head….
What would you have done in this case ?
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