On May 22, 1:16*pm, JJ Sinclair wrote:
BTW, your Ventus wing
won't stay on with just wing tape, that pin forms the second member
and must have been into the second spar far enough to take the flight
loads.

I initially thought the wing pin on a Ventus, like other gliders that
engage a spar end pin in the opposite root, takes no flight loads.

I can see though that any yawing would tend to push the wings apart as
the fuselage would tend to rotate between the wing roots just as if
the lift pins are not properly shimmed. I can see that would quite
quickly cause the tape to yield.

So I agree that, althought the wing pin carries no lift load when the
wings are fully engaged it probably does carry flight loads due to
yawing.

Maybe the OP flys very smooth and co-ordinated? Maybe he's just very
lucky.

Andy