I have not looked at a recent King Air, but I think that
they still use the traditional Beech bath-tub fitting and
tension bolts.


"karl gruber" wrote in message
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|
| Jim Macklin wrote:
| Understand that bolts used in aircraft construction are
not "hardware
| store" items. The steel and the tolerances for
aircraft grade fasteners
| are better than hardware store Grade 8 bolts. Beech
uses bolts in
| tension to hold the wing on the Bonanza, Baron and King
Air models. When
| there is a crash, the bolts are rarely broken.
|
| Well, Beech used to use bolt in tension on the King Air.
But a bunch of them
| had their wings fall off.
|
| Now they use bolts in shear.
|
| Karl
| N185KG
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