From memory this is different than the older (non electronic) manual.
The left and right tips are different due to the wing rib flanges being
inboard on one tip and outboard on the other. I'm fairly certain that
my W-145's are flush with the skins and entirely outboard of the wing
rib with no overlapping flanges. And that my W-145 flanges point outboard.
There was a bracket shown for the side that the wing rib flanges point
outboard as I recall to keep the W-145 entirely outboard of the wing rib.
If no one else answers and it's still mysterious, I'll dig out the old
paper manual and see if there are anymore clues.
Ken
Ron Shannon wrote:
Preparing for wing tips, I'm locating the wing tip rib (W-145). In Ch. 11,
p.1 (Fig. 11.1.1) the manual says to put the tip rib "over the wing skins"
and, as shown in the figure, with the flanges positioned on the inward side.
When I tried to do that, in order to get the tip rib far enough forward to
be at the correct 1/2" forward of the rear end of the flaperon, I couldn't
get it to fit at all without a very ugly squishing (stressing) of the wing
skins.
However, if I put the W-145 inside the wing skins, with the flanges pointing
outward, everything works great -- including the flaperon hinge bolt access,
etc. IMHO, closure of the rear end of the wing tip will look better with the
flanges inside the wing tip. Pictures at http://n254mr.com/node/187 &
http://n254mr.com/node/188
Is my orientation of the W-145 with flanges outward a bad idea for some
reason?
Is this yet another place where the manual is, uh, bogus? So it seems.
Ron
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