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Old 11-04-2009 | 09:13 AM
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whitemax
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Default first kit build question / problem

I have a quick question:

(Not that I can fix it now) BUT... I am building a Sig LT 40 and I just finished the first wing and the trailing edge where the ribs get installed was not lining up with the plans, so I lined it up with the most outside rib and then lined everything from there. Figuring that if that rib is out of alien then everything else might. (I have learned a lot from this build so far). But when I put the shear webbing in between the ribs, it pushed the ribs ever so slight out of 90 degree (probably 91 at the leading edge) side to side. they are 90 degree everywhere else (up and down).
So the ribs on the outs sides of the wing half I build so far are perfect in all directions but a few on the inside are not a perfect 90 with the leading edge. (I did not want to cut the shear webbing since it was "laser cut" and read somewhere that you should line up the ribs with that). That was my mistake and the second half will come out 100 percent better, and the rest of the planes I build.

My question is will this greatly distort how the plane flies if the ribs on the inside are not perfectly 90 degrees front to back?

thanks for any advise...

Patrick
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