Flightstar two place ultralight aircraft windshield bracket safety bulletin.

 Ultralight Aircraft News

Covering the World of Ultralight Aviation.
   
      

Airfield By Appt Only

Click here for Rotax Aircraft
Engine Information

The L'il Buzzard ultralight trainer.

Top 10 reasons to consider a
 L'il Buzzard!
 

 

 Click here for this months specials!

 

When was the last time you did maintenance on your K & N Airfilter? Is you filter safety wired? Click here to see how to clean and safety wire your airfilter!


Ultralight aircraft safety advisory - Flightstar II windshield bracket safety bulletin.

Flightstar 2

SUBJECT: 
Upper Windshield Bracket

SUMMARY: 
Under the top windshield bracket where it is pop riveted to the keel tube the tube had a crack in it. You could not readily see this on preflight or with the wing cover open. We heard a new popping noise when taxing on a rough taxi way. 

Pulling down the bottom wing cover at the velcro opening while taxing, we noticed the front pop rivet moving in and out of its hole. The rear rivet was loose too. When we removed the bracket we found the main tube had been flexing from the rivet pushing up and in, then pulling down and out.

We called Spark at Flightstar. He said there is not a lot of stress on the tube at this spot, but we should fix it. To do so, we got a part #B-146 boom reinforce plate and a rubber isolator from Flightstar. Since the tube was already cracked between the rivets, we drilled a hole big enough for a 1/4" nut. 

Then we bolted the isolator to the reinforcement plate and mounted it to the tube through the four rivet holes with AN bolts, nuts, washers and a long 3/8" wrench. Then we took the original windshield bracket shortened it to fit the old hole in the windshield and on to the new isolator. It seems to be OK.

Flightstar ultralight aircraft

Make yourself visible to others when your flying...... Strobe lights make you visible! Click here for more information!


Ultralight News


  
              

Airfield By Appt Only


 

Google

Web Ultralight News.com
Ultralight News.ca Ultralight Flyer.com

Ultralight Aircraft News Web Magazine. You may link to these pages or print them out for your own personal use, but no part of this publication may be copied or distributed, transmitted, transcribed, stored in a retrieval system, or translated into any human or computer language, in any form or by any means, electronic,  mechanical, manual, or otherwise,  without the written permission of Ultralight News. By copying or paraphrasing the intellectual property on this site, you're automatically signing a binding contract and agreeing to be billed $10,000 payable immediately. Copyright Ultralight News -  Ultralight Flyer.  
Return to Main Index for this section