{"id":2879,"date":"2014-08-09T09:11:08","date_gmt":"2014-08-09T13:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/?p=2879"},"modified":"2014-08-31T10:06:44","modified_gmt":"2014-08-31T14:06:44","slug":"wing-root-fairings-and-flap-rods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/?p=2879","title":{"rendered":"Wing root fairings and flap rods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a whole laundry list of things that need to be done now that the wings are fitted.<\/p>\n<p>First up was fitting the wing root fairings. Nothing too difficult here&#8230;the only trick is getting the fairing to conform to the wing leading edge curve enough to get all the holes aligned with those in the wing. A little hand shaping of that area solved the hole alignment problem.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/2014-08-08-19.13.08.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2880\" src=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/2014-08-08-19.13.08-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Wing root fairings fitted\" width=\"584\" height=\"778\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/2014-08-08-19.13.08-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/2014-08-08-19.13.08-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I realized that I made a small mistake several years ago when I built the wings &#8211; I match-drilled and dimpled several of the wing skin\/rib holes that should have been left undrilled for the fairing attach screws. \u00a0Looks like I&#8217;ll have to drill them out to the right size (#19) and then re-dimple to accept a #8 screw. No big deal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/2014-08-08-19.04.04-e1407588887944.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2881\" src=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/2014-08-08-19.04.04-e1407588887944-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Flap pushrods assembled\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/2014-08-08-19.04.04-e1407588887944-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/2014-08-08-19.04.04-e1407588887944-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/2014-08-08-19.04.04-e1407588887944-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a>While I was at Oshkosh I bought these spiffy pre-drilled hex flap pushrods rods from Avery Tools. Drilling and tapping a piece of round tube stock for these pushrods per plans is a pain, so these Avery rods save a lot of time and effort&#8230;just screw in the rod ends, and you&#8217;re done. Cool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a whole laundry list of things that need to be done now that the wings are fitted. First up was fitting the wing root fairings. Nothing too difficult here&#8230;the only trick is getting the fairing to conform to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/?p=2879\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fuselage","category-wings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2879"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2886,"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2879\/revisions\/2886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}