August 11, 2020
Mounted the left aileron and did all the final rigging on it. We started by holding the aileron bellcrank in position with the jig supplied in the kit and adjusted the short control link to put the aileron in trail. Then the longer control rod got installed between the bellcrank and the left stick. We used a socket on the elevator bellcrank to hold the sticks neutral fore/aft and put an angle finder to set the left/right control rod length. With the fuselage level the sticks are now 90 degrees for/aft and 89.9 degrees left right. Once the control rod position was set, we adjusted the metal rod between the two sticks so that they’re both vertical. Tightened all the jam nuts and called that good. To install the aileron upstop we had to remove the inboard bracket from the aileron. Turns out, when everything is level and you have a 1 degree incidence on the wing, the aileron bracket sits 1 degree off vertical in the faired position. With no stop installed, the bracket swung 32 degrees before the spacer on the upper mount made contact with the mount itself. Without the aileron in place it was easy to move the bracket a fraction of an inch away from making contact and then secure the stop in place with some super glue. With that held firmly in place, we drilled the 2 holes through the mount, removed the stop for cleanup and priming, and then riveted it back in place. We now have 30.5 degrees of travel on this aileron and will make the right side match that when that wing is installed for rigging. After that we reinstalled the bracket onto the aileron and put the aileron back into place.
-Paul
(Total Build Time: 534.1)