Richard,
I would make an immediate inspection of the are using a boroscope, if the skin
is compromised in this area there may be a significant reduction in strength.
The delaminated skin will only transfer loads in tension (top skin = negative
G), therefore you may have a reduction in ability to transfer positive G loads
to the fwd pickup. Luckily the spar does much of the work, but the skins work
for torsion and to transfer drag/antidrag loads via shear into the fwd/aft
pickups.
If it is delaminated the repair may need to be more than localised.
Did you know Dr Joyce has some spare wings from kit #506?
I hope it turns out to be more benign than it at first appears.
Regards
JW
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John Wighton
Europa XS trigear G-IPOD
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