Improved Flap Handle

Having nice wooden flight sticks, my wife also wanted an appropriate improved (better looking) flap handle. With the support of a friend in “wood business” I fabricated the wooden flap …

Brakes working

After the brakes were filled with fluid, I tested them. I put pressure on it and checked every connection. No leak occured. The parking brake is working well. Even after …

Bleeding Brakes

  Filling the brakes with hydraulic fluid was a job I often thought of. Having done this never before, some consideration was made how to perform it. In the end …

Parking Brake

  We installed a parking brake in the Rebel. There is a very good description available online from Roee Kalinsky (http://www.kalinskyconsulting.com/rvproj/parkingbrake.htm). I copied this design with some modifications.

Flap Handle Bolt

  These pictures show the simple mechanism Murphy uses to fix the flap positions. Just an AN4 bolt which fits into a hole. Just pull the handle towards the pilot …

Aileron Stop

  To make sure I do not have interference with the rudder cables, I finally painted and installed the aileron controls. One detail of this are the very simple but …

Mixer Detail

Mixer mounted on the mixer arm. I decided to mount the mixer after the teleflex cable moun (as stated in the new version of the manual). It gives more clearance …

Torque tube detail

Detailed picture of the torque tube with push-pull tubes connected. I managed to temporarily install all this without removing the wings. Final installation will need wings removed.    

Torque Tube with hanger

Today I partially mounted the torque tube, this is more time consuming than estimated.Working over head leaning backwards is hard, espacially when the temperatures are more than 35 degree Celsius …