On the elevator skins you need to bend the trailing edge once the stiffeners are in but while the text describes the correct radius on the plans i don't see that specific item/drawing on the plans. Down the road the flight testing comments on potential problems if the angle is not acute enough. Can anyone tell me where the bending info is or how you determined how much bend is correct?? Thanks G
In your builders manual there are hand drawn pictures of what you are after along with a short explantion. Those pictures can be found toward the front section before the step by step info but after the sample RVator.
There is at least one picture that I've posted somewhere here on RB of me using a hand seamer to crisp the tangent point of the elevator TE. If you do that, use some caution and soften the bite of the seamer with padding of some sort. If you don't you will get little uneven bite marks at the outside edges of the seamer that would look like little dings.
CJ
I'll have to go back and see what I did to get 'em right.
