Hey guys,

My Twist fell off the work bench and cracked one of the diagonal braces in the aileron in between the last rib and second to last. I repaired it a couple of days ago and noticed tonight, that when I repaired it, there is some deflection upward. My question is, will that affect the flight at all? There is about 1/8-1/4" deflection upward between the second to last rib and last rib on the trailing edge of the aileron. Will this affect the flight too much to where I should try and repair it some more, or is it okay and can be trimmed out. Thanks

Derek,
To answer your questions. Yes it is going to affect the way the plane flies. Maybe you can trim it. That will just depend on where your trims are already set, how much trim movement you have left, and how much trim you are going to need. Just be aware that when you take off you may not have enough trim to adjust the plane in the air, and if that happens you are going to have to manual compensate while you fly the plane. If you're nervous about it get an experienced pilot to help you out. If it takes too much then you may want to consider the repair.

Personally, if it were me I would do the repair before I flew it. But I can be a bit picky about my planes sometimes.

Hope this helps

Ken

re break it and straiten the aileron you are going to have nothing but a headache with a twisted twist. hey I made a funny

It appears that you covering could be reshrunk on the underside and pull it down. As it looks like a more like a warp. If not pull in on the linkage for that side a couple of turns on the clevis. If you havent noticed, my ailerons are tweaked like that and it flies perfectly level. Thats because the tail is 2 degrees canted. Not noticable but took some tuning to get rid of. Cya this weekend.