Nice? Sure….
Needed? Not really….. we don’t have them on any of our RV’s (they didn’t exist when they were built) and all the airplanes handle great - the RV-3 is the most delightful of all the airplanes we fly.
If you sit in a bunch of RV’s at a fly-in and move the controls around, I bet you’d have a tough time figuring out which had these kind of bearings, and which ones had the bronze bushings that were just fit nicely….
But they certainly won’t hurt to have them (except for added cost and time - if those make a difference).
Paul
I wish they'd offer an improved bearing setup for the base of the control sticks... that's where it takes a lot of fiddling to get all the play out of the bronze bushing setup, and even then many RVs have a little bit of slop in the pitch axis. By comparison, the aileron bellcrank upgrade seems like it would offer less tangible benefit.
Mine were red, but the same design. Great team at sky designs.
Anytime you can have ball bearings vs bushings, seems to be a win. Some might say why, but then why do anything above and beyond?
Does this bolt look a little short?
Looks like it's all in the process of being test fitted, not the final installation.
Does this bolt look a little short?
Probably cannot tell on RV’s.
Tough to beat the RV3