Re rigging

Because of all the little moves here and there and pulling and adjusting of wings I need to re-rig the whole aircraft – back to how it was in the first barn. In first setup – the floor was level and the whole aircraft was trimmed out to set a good base point.

The wings were then fitted and checked using pre cut/shaped dihedral and pitch boards. These have been retained and so I plan to:

• Get the ‘plane out of the barn
• Set level fore and aft and laterally
• Ensure the Jury struts are secured and in place
• Slacken and remove the turnbuckles/rigging
• Possibly Remove the top wings – consider this as they may simply stay in place attached to the strut
• Re-check and set dihedral for lower wings (3 degrees)
• Re-check and set the upper wing dihedral (1 degree)
• Then reapply slack rigging to all 4 locations and slowly tighten up
• (I suspect one of my cables to be too short – but this process will out whichever !)