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Wing Locating Pins & Main Pins & Spar caps.

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Foundationer

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I've got a question for you people!

I'm planning on having removable wings and joining them in a glider style - Bending loads carried by spars that overlap inside the fuselage with two big pins going into bushings to join them together then lift loads transferring into the fuselage via four pins into bushings. One forward and one rearward on each wing root. So my questions are::

1. Locating pins. Where do you buy them? Are there standard aircraft ones you can buy somewhere?
2. Fixing something like that into a composite wing root - what's the standard procedure? It's quite important that bit doesn't go wrong(!) and it's quite a lot of force into a small fixing.

Bonus question: Where in Europe sells good quality pultruded carbon? All I can find is about half the strength of Graphlite.

Any and all pointers gratefully received.

Matty
 
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