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Hi All.
I'm just about done with the construction of my wingwalks. I haven't owned a plane with a wooden wingwalk and i'm left with a little concern about the trailing edge being an easy place to damage.
My wingwalk is overbuilt, but no matter how i think of it the trailing edge bothers me. Is it typical to have any problem/damage on the trailing edge from a passenger stepping onto the edge and not fully up onto the top surface? Is it typical to mark the thin trailing edge as "no step" or to leave the walk trailing edge blunt? or to reinforce it with carbon? or is it just not a worry?
My trailing edge is a fir wedge milled to accept the ply top flush between ribs, then covered with 1/16" ply top and bottom.
Any comments appreciated.
I'm just about done with the construction of my wingwalks. I haven't owned a plane with a wooden wingwalk and i'm left with a little concern about the trailing edge being an easy place to damage.
My wingwalk is overbuilt, but no matter how i think of it the trailing edge bothers me. Is it typical to have any problem/damage on the trailing edge from a passenger stepping onto the edge and not fully up onto the top surface? Is it typical to mark the thin trailing edge as "no step" or to leave the walk trailing edge blunt? or to reinforce it with carbon? or is it just not a worry?
My trailing edge is a fir wedge milled to accept the ply top flush between ribs, then covered with 1/16" ply top and bottom.
Any comments appreciated.
