Instruction and Maintenance Handbook
FUN 450
EDITION :
MARS 2005
PAGE : 5
AIR CREATION
Aérodrome de Lanas - 07200 AUBENAS - France
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III)
Instructions for use
a)
Assembling - Dismantling
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Open the wing bag, make sure that the A-frame is on top, and remove fastenings and packing.
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Assemble the A-frame with the push-pin. Cables must not pass through the inside.
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Turn the wing over, and carefully open the two half wings to their maximum extent.
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Fit the king post onto its locating lug, take care that the tensioning cables do not entangle.
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Fit the king post nylon head at the top of the kingpost without entangling luff lines.
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Carefully slide the upper sail bent battens in their respective pockets and secure them with the
doubled ropes. Do not force the battens during the assembly.
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Place the two straight battens of the wing on the lug at the extremity of the leading edge.
Carefully check, with the help of the graded scale set on the leading edge tube at the end of the
wing, the correct framing (sail tensioning screw in the axis of the keel) of the pivoting sleeves
of the leading edge before tightening the strings.
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Slip the cross tubes swan catch tensioner through the opening between the king post and the
trailing edge, pull to hook it on the rail screw tensioning at the keel tip. To ease the operation
carefully center the A-frame,
ensure that the tabs and heat shrink coverings of the lower
lateral cables do not get stuck in the sail opening at the cross tube-to-leading edge
connection and that the stainless steel tabs line up with the control bar.
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Pull down the swan catch tension lever and fix it in the rail with the push-pin.
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Raise the nose of the wing and lift it on its A-frame.
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Fix the front lower longitudinal cables in the rail under the nose plate with the help of the
tension lever and the pushpin.
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When connecting the trike, slip the security fastening cable into the security strap at the king
post level, make a turn backward around the king post, slip it again through the security strap,
and then fix it on the upper beam of the trike. The security cable should pass under the
tensioning cables. This operation secures connecting of the trike as well as fastening of the
crossbar tensioning system.
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Fix the nose bonnet with the Velcro patches (essential point see "c" flight specifications).
Dismantling is carried out in reverse order of the assembling operations.
Before folding up the
two half-wings,
place the leather cap on the tensioning device lever and pass it through the upper
sail aperture at the front of the post bottom to avoid tearing any part of the sail or the structure
while closing the leading edges.
