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Lower Wing: Aft Drag/Anti-Drag Wire Blocks and Aileron Leading Edge interference

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fidot

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Folks;

Modeling drag wire blocks on lower wings. Aileron well area; stations 68 1/4 and 101 1/4 seem to be problematic...

Look at the pictures below. As you can see, with aileron deflected upward; and leading edge downward; there's interference between leading edge of the aileron and drag/anti-drag wire blocks... Double checked the dimensions; and they seem to be to plans...

Also, I can see how blocks will present a problem for the aileron well ply trailing edge glued on those little rib tails....

How did you guys solve this?

.. i thought about relieving them for clearance; but it seems that that will eat away a lot of the block...

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