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I know someone who was flying his 360 on autopilot and noticed one of his ailerons sort of vibrating slightly......he didn't think anything of it until he turned the autopilot off and thought the roll felt a little heavy. He thought maybe it was a possible fuel imbalance. ...anyway he landed and said nothing was much out of normal other than the roll felt heavy. Once landed he notice his aileron was free floating and not responding to control input.. What had happend was the Bellcrank had broken where the rodend attaches to it so he basically was flying his airplane with one aileron connected for that flight.
On Apr 23, 2007, at 9:02 PM, <dskeele@bellsouth.net> <dskeele@bellsouth.net> wrote:
Aheads up for high time Lancairs. Had play in my left inboard ailerorn hinge,, replaced the 0.088" pin with a 0.092" and hinge tight, but still had play. All rod-end bearings and bolts were ok, but the "L" shaped bracket that attaches to the aileron itself with two AN-3 bolts (they were tight) actually had been pulled away from the aileron near the web of the bracket, about 0.010" or so. The bracket was deformed, the push-pull tube action had literally pulled the unsupported bracket away from the aileron . ONe more thing to check as breaking this bracket, will result in loosing control of the aileron for a really bad day... Am replacing both left and right brackets with 1" steel angle iron....Don Skeele N320J
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