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Rob's REBVAIR Project
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Date: 1-17-2016
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Number of Hours: 6.00
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Brief Description: Gull wingdoor fuse mod
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If you havn't noticed already, I'm a bit of a procrastinator. It might not be the first adjective that you'd use to describe a homebuilder, but my procrastination only surfaces when there's a project or task on the plane that I'm not looking forward to. In those moments, I'll find any excuse to move onto something else that feels more rewarding. Such is the case with this gull-wing door mod.
What I really ought to be doing is to lie down underneath the panel and tie up the nest of wires, but I'm not looking forward to that, especially with the remote prospect that I'd have to undo all my hard work if I find the avionics testing to reveal a wiring problem later on. I'm not worried about power and ground connections; it's more about miswired data interconnections.
Nevertheless I've convinced myself that the gull-wing door fuselage modification needed to be completed now, and it was indeed as straighforward and rewarding as I had hoped.
Gull-wing doors are not new to the Rebel community...several builders have done it. There are two dimensions referenced in our builder archives: The more recent is the 3.5" rise and 11" run triangle, which I used here. Rebflyer (Curt) did his years ago with a slightly shallower triangle (approx: 2.5"x12"...schematics available on the builder site), but I admit I was concerned that it would too severely limit the clearances of the door perimeter material (which must ultimately cover the door gap while also accepting rubber door seal material).
The fabrication was uneventful, and I added my trademark 'diamond-plate' door sill to help protect the underlying 0.032" channel from all the scraping feet that will bump into this area. I fully acknowledege that the gull-wing door modification makes it a bit harder to get in and out of the plane, but it seems like a good trade-off for now getting a (simpler) one-piece door up and out of the way during loading entry and egress.
I installed the inside panels with only a few rivets to make them easily removable when I install
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