securing wings for travel

[Abender]

I've been fine with 2/3 tanks. But my wings are level down the road. I let the elevator push UP against the flaperons.

Thanx for the info

[Flyboy66]

Can someone post pictures of the hardware used for transport. I am thinking about building the braces. Any advise? And if that advise is “just buy them”, then I am good with that too.

Steve

[Esser]

I don’t have close up pictures but you can look one page back on the efwd build page to see my plane on the trailer.

I took 1/2” steel tube, crushed the one end and bent it. Then I drilled a hole it it and wrapped foam rubber around it. That’s the end I bolted to the wing.

On the bottom I put a straight edge from the fuselage, drew a line on the tube and cut on the line. Then I welded a piece of flat bar with a hole in it. I bolted that to the strut attach point. I think the real ones have a pin that goes through the channel at the attach point but the way I did it worked fine too and was easier to make. Cut the pipe 1/4” longer than you think. Mine ended up being short and the wing is better to flex up slightly since it’s sinking a bit from the weight than to torque it down more. Even if it is short like mine was, you can put a bunch of washers between to wing and the brace.

Hope that all makes sense.

[efwd]

I posted pics of the brand new travel braces I got from Kitfox someplace here in reply to someone else asking the same question. Maybe they can guide you to their thread.

[ken nougaret]

I've got some pics under "loading and unloading trailer ....." sticky towards the top.