Friday 4th May 2012

A small group of club members arrived at 1830 on Friday evening to welcome back BVB. Ged and Chris Matten collected the aircraft from Dunkeswell and arrived at the club at 1915.

The seat goes at the other end. A playful start to rigging BVB

Chris Kaminski, Nigel Williamson and Richard Williamson helped to rig BVB and all was going well until they tried to rig the tail plane. Upon attempting to connect the trim tab push rod, it was noticed that the inner bearing was missing. Thus commenced a spot of late-evening maintenance.

Chris, Richard and Nigel all worked extremely hard trying to find a suitable way of fixing the problem. First, it was suggested that we find a new bearing, but no such luck. Next, Chris thought that we could use a spare trim tab. The group went through the motions of removing the old tab and fitting a replacement. This was all going well until it was noticed that the angle of the edge of the tab was slightly different to the original and hence would not fit.

Working into the night to fix the problem

Finally, the group removed the old bearing and replaced it with the bearing from the spare trim tab.

The tail plane was then put back on to the aircraft, ready for inspection in the morning.

All in all a job well done to get BVB ready for the Open Day tomorrow.

Richard