Adam Dickson

Jig positioning of LH wing ribs 5, 6, and 7

The skin jigs made earlier were used to position the LH wing ribs 5, 6 and 7. The worst mismatch was with rib 6 (up to 1mm on some holes), while the rib 7 mismatch was at the 0.5mm level, the rib 5 mismatch was at the 0.6mm level. Because of limited edge-hole centre distance the top- and bottom-most holes were not upsized and the elongation was left in the the rib. All the centre holes were upsized and recentered to 4.8mm to absorb the misalignment error. All errors were absorbed, except for the topmost upsized hole of rib 6 where about 0.2mm elongation remained in the rib.

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