Kyleb wrote:
Interesting wing attach. I didn't realize there was a "middle" attachment point. It has been a long, long time since I took statics, but doesn't that middle attach point make the entire structure indeterminate, where it becomes extremely hard (impossible?) to know the load path?
Almost 50 years removed from Statics and Dynamics classes, and I'm not sure that I understood it even then. I still haven't figured out in what plane it is trying to prevent shear. (Yeah, yeah, I know, B-17. Other definition of plane.)
All I know is that the shear web is not anywhere near as strong of a connection as the upper or lower. Smaller diameter single taper pin, relatively thin steel fittings riveted to 0.180" aluminum.