Thursday, September 22, 2022

Left Flap Assembly (5) & Right Flap (2)

I finished up match drilling everything on the right flap, including the trailing edge wedge.


I noticed that the inboard piece of angle has one hole that is just a touch too close to the edge, so doesn't meet normal edge distance rules.  This is because the instructions for putting this angle in place to match drill just say to center it on the spar.  I obviously didn't get it perfectly centered.  I emailed Van's to see if it's okay or needs to be remade.  It's not uncommon for even some of Van's predrilled parts to not have "by the book" edge distance, but they do it in places where the engineering says it doesn't matter.  We'll see what they say about this part.


Since I was done using the left flap wedge for the spacing of the right one, I put it into place in the left flap (with the VHB tape - although I'm not convinced it really helps much) and finished pop riveting the bottom skin to ribs.