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Thread: Flaparon Brace

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    Default Re: Flaparon Brace

    I hope to have my new AF5600 installed if not I'll be working on it.
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    Default Re: Flaparon Brace

    The bearing was eliminated on the Series 6 during testing... due to the .065 wall spars.. So if your 5 has .065 wall spars it should not be an issue.


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    Maybe John McBean can chime in here, but my thought was that they were necessary on the early style (1-3) planes that used extended wood wing ribs to hold the flapperons, but the advent of the metal flapperons brackets made them unnecessary.

    I do have them in my IV, and plan to use them on my project model IV as well.
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    Default Re: Flaparon Brace

    I don't have them on my Classic 4 either. No ill effects yet.


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    Default Re: Flaparon Brace

    Quote Originally Posted by jdmcbean View Post
    The bearing was eliminated on the Series 6 during testing... due to the .065 wall spars.. So if your 5 has .065 wall spars it should not be an issue.

    What were the spars if not .065" wall?

    I thought that is what Kitfox had always used?
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    Default Re: Flaparon Brace

    .063 I think
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    Default Re: Flaparon Brace

    My early Vixen had .058 spars.

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    Default Re: Flaparon Brace

    was it a 1400 airframe?
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    Default Re: Flaparon Brace

    Yes Chase, 1400. Very early kit, 007

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