2004 Flight from KKLS

2004 Flight from KKLS
This photo is from when I was flying the airplane out of Longview, WA. This was taken early in the morning..

RV-6 #25188 in flight

RV-6 #25188 in flight
Doug Eves sent this photo of the Ol' girl in flight. Taken from the ground, this is a great shot. You can see he is "relaxing" in his office in the sky...

Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Aileron gap seal installed

I have installed the aileron bellcrank, cut the hole through the rear spar and rigged it all up. I had to re-do the hole in the rear spar as I cut it too big going off of Van's plans. I drilled off the reinforcing plate and installed new one. I also added a angle across the top of the rear spar the whole span of the rib bay to add some strength back to the spar. This was probably an overkill on my part but I don't like having big holes cut in my 200mph airplane. I will move the starting of the hole over 1/2 inch inboard on the other wing so I can keep the hole smaller. I am still going to install an extra angle over the hole however. My extended tanks end in the same location on the main spar and the joint for the bottom skin in on the next bay over. If you remember the lesson Van's learned back in the early RV-8 day is don't have all of the joints in the same area on the wing. It tends to be a weak spot. I have also installed the aileron gap seal. Now I have to put on the flap and and align it to the aileron and then install the flap brace. Once this is done I can start running electrical wiring and close up the wing skins. Yeah! And then it's onto the next one :(