Another common cause of a heavy wing is the aileron hinge brackets. On my -7 (and many others), the outboard bracket caused the aileron to be vertically misaligned with the wing. So the entire aileron was about 3/32 higher than top surface of the wing which caused a left roll. Van’s sells undrilled brackets, and that is what I had to do to fix my heavy left wing.
Thanks Stu for this great video. Perfect timing...I am currently in the process of leveling my fuselage to mount wing and empennage. Per your suggestion, I will for sure mark the location of my levels, and use a laser level. You also saved me for making the mistake of installing wing tips in the cradle !
Excellent video Stu, you touched on some really great points and imparted some good ideas I can capitalize on for my RV 9 build. Keep it up, I look forward to your videos.
Thanks for this video. Gives me a lot to think about. I just finished bending the rudder and it came out ok after a lot of trial and error and an email to Vans lol.
There is a piece of alum that gets placed in bellcrank to make the controls neutral. I’d make it an iterative process and see how it aligns. You definitely don’t want to set flap just by aileron and then have a mismatch at the fuselage.
Amazing workmanship Stu!
Thanks for the info!!!!!
Absolutely gold standard stuff. Thank you.
Super great info. I love the Kimi hat, Bwoah
Another common cause of a heavy wing is the aileron hinge brackets. On my -7 (and many others), the outboard bracket caused the aileron to be vertically misaligned with the wing. So the entire aileron was about 3/32 higher than top surface of the wing which caused a left roll. Van’s sells undrilled brackets, and that is what I had to do to fix my heavy left wing.
Thanks Stu for this great video. Perfect timing...I am currently in the process of leveling my fuselage to mount wing and empennage. Per your suggestion, I will for sure mark the location of my levels, and use a laser level. You also saved me for making the mistake of installing wing tips in the cradle !
Perfect! It’s so satisfying to see it look like an airplane. Good luck
Really really good one. Thanks, Stu!
Excellent video Stu, you touched on some really great points and imparted some good ideas I can capitalize on for my RV 9 build. Keep it up, I look forward to your videos.
Thanks for this video. Gives me a lot to think about. I just finished bending the rudder and it came out ok after a lot of trial and error and an email to Vans lol.
Nice video and cap, KIMI
As usual, highly informative content, thank you for sharing, Stu!
Very helpful, Thanks.
Wow, Stu! Great video. You should consider putting together a video series selling them!
Hahah - only goal is to build the channel and help others. I hope to acquire a project sometime soon
@@stusaircraftfactory6592 Project? Can you elaborate? If not publicly, can you shoot me an email?
Hahaha knew I shouldn’t have said that. Still up in air and waiting for what military wants me to do next. Only hint is it’s not a cross country RV
@@stusaircraftfactory6592 Are you getting the -4?!?
RV4. Nope
I thought Vans has you set the ailerons from a tooling hole at the outboard, then you set the flaps to match the ailerons, no?
There is a piece of alum that gets placed in bellcrank to make the controls neutral. I’d make it an iterative process and see how it aligns. You definitely don’t want to set flap just by aileron and then have a mismatch at the fuselage.
Can you tell me the model name or number for that electronic level? Thank, gorgeous plane!
It’s this one here. It rests inside the bigger level. Very useful
www.aircraftspruce.com/catalog/topages/inclinometer.php
@@stusaircraftfactory6592 Thank you for this.
Rv 4 's are cool but the midget mustang is way cooler!
The intro is crap 😳 the explanations are great!