MartinPred
Well Known Member
So my partner and I bought an RV-4 last year (two Air Force guys looking to enjoy our off time) and it's time for our annual condition inspection. I took it to Darrell Morgan at Firebird Aviation because I wanted a very thorough annual, this being our first one.
Well Darrell was more than thorough, and discovered a very serious problem with the left aft wing connection. It seems the guy who built it mis-drilled the hole. So instead of rebuilding the connection, he just drilled another hole right next to the first one. In fact the two holes overlap making them one big hole.
Darrell tells me this is very serious and could lead to structural failure, which makes sense to me. Of course, having not built one of these things, I can't say for sure.
Darrell is giving us a very reasonable rate to fix it. It's just going to take him a couple of months due to the fact that he already has a couple of long term projects ahead of us.
Have any of you seen this same mistake before? Do you have any creative fixes? I'll try to post some photos.
-Matt J. Martin
N402BD
Well Darrell was more than thorough, and discovered a very serious problem with the left aft wing connection. It seems the guy who built it mis-drilled the hole. So instead of rebuilding the connection, he just drilled another hole right next to the first one. In fact the two holes overlap making them one big hole.
Darrell tells me this is very serious and could lead to structural failure, which makes sense to me. Of course, having not built one of these things, I can't say for sure.
Darrell is giving us a very reasonable rate to fix it. It's just going to take him a couple of months due to the fact that he already has a couple of long term projects ahead of us.
Have any of you seen this same mistake before? Do you have any creative fixes? I'll try to post some photos.
-Matt J. Martin
N402BD