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 !)
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