My new parts have finally showed up! Yay! For the past few weeks I’ve been waiting for my wing spar doubler panels to arrive. These parts were overlooked when I originally ordered the RV-4 wing kit. The forward wing spar web doubler is part of the Sport Wing modifications, it’s also not something that you […]
Left Wing Rear Spar Fittings
After having deciphered the Sport Wing rib spacing it is now time to start drilling the wing attach fitting. Before we get to the drilling, I just want to add that the rib spacing dimension that I determined in my last post actually worked out really well. Again, when reviewing the HRII plans, the location […]
Sport Wing Rear Spar Dimensions Deciphered
No one ever said that building an F1 Rocket would be easy. This certainly isn’t the case as the rear wing spar dimensions are not easy to come by, even though all the information is there in the plans. It’s just not laid out very well. OK, as is with all problems, lets start out […]
Rear Spar Attach Doubler and Flanges
Today I ventured into getting the rear spar W-407D doubler drilled to the spar along with the W-407B and W-407C flanges. This took me quite a while to figure out. At first, as you will see below, ribs just weren’t lining up with their appropriate locations. It took a little bit of work before I […]