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Pitts S1S ailerons adjustments

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Hello

I've bought my S1S not very long ago. She has been disassembled and reassembled by the previous owner but he never flew the plane.
So I'm the one to find out what's right and wrong.

When I started to do some accros I felt the roll rate was quite slow while the stick was litterely against my leg, which is not so good.
Back on the ground I saw that I couldn't get the full deflection without going through my leg!!!

So obviously the ailerons need a drastic adjustment!

I have all the manuals of the Pitts, but I can't find much about it, beside the traveling angles up and down of the ailerons.

I would really appreciate if somebody could explain to me the procedure to adjust properly the ailerons.

Thank you
Pitof
 

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