Structural Testing Of Homebuilt Aircraft
the wing and the supporting fixture. disturbances is to construct a sim- amounting to 10%. This apparently
The contact area is, of course, that ple double triangle (Figure 7) made strange division of the half-wing will
between the upper spar flange - it is of 1x1 inch wooden sticks, held speed up our wing loading. It is,
now the bottom flange - and the together with plywood and carpen- however, not binding and the builder
supporting fixture. Since we have ter's glue and fasten it rigidly in the can find his own system in subdivid-
to go as close as possible to the center of the wing in such a way ing the wing. Each wing element
fuselage we may have a problem that measuring sticks freely hang generates a certain amount of lift,
providing a contact area large down the wing leading edge
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