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No,
wings do not slide through holes hand cut in the fuselage in Glasairs. The wing,
single piece spar, is finished in a jig that holds alignment to within 1/16 of
an inch, side to side, if the builder is careful. The wing is then mounted to
the fuselage via heavy AN hardware and precast brackets/bushings. Again to 0.1
degree accuracy.
There
has NEVER been an in-flight failure of a Glasair wing. No, I take that back,
Chip Beck had a wing delamination in his GIII while pulling 9+
G's during his airshow routine. It just leaked some gas, no sheding of
parts.
Bruce
www.glasair.org
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