One Lucky Fox

[Dave S]

Daniel,

Really looks nice.

Mavbe I missed it somewhere along the line; but, what did you choose for a fabric covering system?

Love yellow - it is really visible.

[bbs428]

Congratz on your airworthiness inspection!

Your bird is looking nice and ready to go! Transport hardware turned out great as well!

Hope the training goes smooth for you.

[Geek]

Conduit - it's not just for electrical anymore!!! Your plane looks great. Nice work. The grin when you fly it the first time will be worth all the work.

Gary

[yocum137]

Dave S., I went with Oratex. Wife said no stinky chemicals near the house!

If I built another airplane, I'll probably use Oratex, again, *BUT* I will definitely have a second set of hands for stretching the stuff over large areas that need to be glued down, like the Laker leading edge.

[yocum137]

Thanks everyone for the compliments! I'm very glad to be done with the project. I addressed all the squawks Paul Dye found and he entered the airworthiness into the AWC. The FAA says it can fly!

[PapuaPilot]

Have you done your first flight yet?

[yocum137]

Not yet. Falcon insurance wants transition training and a sign off before they'll cover me.

There are still some odds-n-ends to get taken care of, too. Install stall fences, wingtips, register the ELT. Little stuff, really.

[yocum137]

Folks,

I did initial basic flaperon rigging before I covered - stick to neutral, flap forward, flap to flaperon mixer attachment to 11.5 degrees, flaperon bell crank as close to parallel as possible with line-of-flight, left push tube arm to 26 degrees (right to 32), flap/flaperon mixer to 3.7? (per Brandon for the STi, I also tested with 3.6, 3.8, 3.9, and 4.0 per the manual). Flaperon chord parallel to wing chord (2 1/2? block at front spar, level with flaperon brackets - this is different than the standard S7 wing which has a shorter chord depth).

In short, everything is per the manual.

Heres the problem:

The right flaperon is perfect in full range of motion: 28-30 degrees down, 15-16 degrees up.

The left flaperon is off, but ONLY in down deflection, I can only get 10 degrees. Up deflection is fine: 28 degrees.

If it was a couple degrees I?d ignore it, but it?s a full 5 degrees, noticeable by eye.

Any ideas or suggestions?

thanks!
Dan