Page 89. The trick (I discovered) with the aileron counter balance, is not to make it TOO long. TOO long is defined as the point at which your counter balance hole hits the AFT SPAR (Bummer). This is dependant on where you attached your aft aileron spar. So what you end up doing, is make the arm too long, then cut to fit. Trouble is, you won't know where this is, if you have PAINTED your wing before you cut the hole. Moral of the story.. do the counterweight arm install before painting... final balancing after painting.
Also... from preflighting lots of C-152's you can see that Cessna uses small spanwise triangular weights just FWD of the hinge line. This is much more attractive than our giant lead arm... but weighs more. I'm thinking that 2 counterweight arms might be better than one, to distribute the weight. I tapered my counterweights so that most of the weight was towards the end of the counterweight arm... still I needed lots of weight, as I made my ailerons out of LEAD filled fiberglass. Page95. Well, you drill a hole in your longeron, and in your canopy sill plywood/spruce. Then the pin goes through both. (The pin is a 3/16 bolt tapered, and use a AN970 washer on the fuselage side, so the tapered bolt doesn't gouge the spruce when you miss the hole. I installed all this per plans, then ripped it out for another canopy latch solution... which I have also recently removed. So I'm on canopy latch design #3. Can you say "unhappy" with the RR design? Thats me. -- Ross On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 13:32:28 -0800, larry severson <[email protected]> wrote: > Page 89 shows the aileron balance arm. Nowhere can I find the length of > the arm. What should it be? > > Page 95 shows a canopy latch & center pin diagram. Does anyone know what > it means, and how to use it? > > Larry Severson > Fountain Valley, CA 92708 > (714) 968-9852 > [email protected] _______________________________________ > to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to [email protected] > please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/
