Hi Harry Please find attached photos of a bit of a problem we have. As you can see there is a gap between the fuselage where the wing meets the moulding on co-pilots side which is around three times the size of the other side, you can also see where the wing sits around ¾ of an inch foreword of the moulding. Jake Jansen had a look at it on the weekend and thinks it will change the flight characteristics and may allow the wing to “balloon with air”. Do you have any thoughts on how this can be rectified and whether it will affect handling of the plane. We really need to do something about it anyway as cosmetically it doesn’t look good
Darren, This has been an issue we have been striving to correct on the Jump Start Fuselages. Since we don’t have the ability to match up the wings at the time we seam the fuselages together and bond on the Top Deck, the leading edges sometimes don’t line up. Please accept our apologies for the extra cosmetic finishing. We have recently come up with a fixture that simulates the wing skin positions, so there should be less issues with this in the future. Remedy: In-house, we put a little milled fiber into auto-body filler and fill in the fuselage leading edge to match the wing. Be sure to thoroughly scuff up the fiberglass surface with the roughest grit sand paper you can find. Mask off the wing with several layers of 2” wide masking tape to protect the metal, then sand the filler to match the leading edge contour. The same can be done to even up the gap along the wing root, but you don’t have top build up the entire exterior surface. Just build up the lip extending 3/8 of an inch or so onto the flat surface of the fuselage wing root in order to get some bonding surface area. Harry DeLong Glasair Aviation 18810 59th Ave NE Arlington, WA 98223 360-435-8533 x 232 phone 360-435-9525 fax harry.delong@glasairaviation.com www.glasairaviation.com
