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MOOSE AIR LLC'S WEB SITE
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Date: 1-26-2007
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Number of Hours: 520.00
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Manual Reference: CHAP 12
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Brief Description: BASIC FLITE CONTROLS
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I don't know why Kitlog didn't have this as a basic category; I mean without controls what you have is a nice big model airplane. And flight controls run through the entire airplane from one end to the other. In a way, it's difficult to break this out, because flight controls are being fabricated and installed at various points during the project. Then of course, we have the rigging of flight controls [220 hours] as part of the final assembly process, so we have to decide whether that comes under assembly or flight controls. That decision hasn't been made yet, but even at this stage several hundred hours have already been involved. The builders manual is surprisingly not much help in this area. However, at least we know what the max deflections and cable tensions should be. We will probably have more to say in this arena when we get closer to flying.
Image one is where the flap control horn meets the wing flap support fixture. We need to drill out the flap tube on the inside fuselage to 5/8" so we can insert a socket to hold the nut that's inside. Otherwise have to disassemble the flap control assembly inside the cabin to remove the flaps for maintenance.
Image two shows the important flap droop aileron mixer assembly. It's going to be fun rigging that. In my opinion, we may want to block out the droop system. It may be an unnecessary complication for very little improvement in lift. Flight test will give us the final answer.
In the final installation process we found that we needed to replace turnbuckles, pulleys, and cables in both the elevator and rudder controls, due to errors that were made earlier in the process. Essentially, we went through the whole process again, and in the long run, it was probably a good idea, though very time-consuming.
We finally decided to leave the aileron droop in. It does not seem to affect the total aileron displacement in a negative way. Luckily the decision can be made later in flight test, because blocking the droop is a relatively simple process.
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