W/T marking – anyone ID it?

That makes sense chaps – the leading edge still retains some of its electrical bonding! All will be carefully preserved and retained 🙂

Yep – I’d agree with that. I know that Mosquitos have all their structure bonded together with strips of copper (there must be hundreds of feet of the stuff in a Mossie!) to prevent static build up.

After thinking about it and re-reading the posts here, I think I agree with Slipstreams understanding of what wired throughout actually does…

I always understood electrical bonding to be for preventing a potential difference build up ( static electricity ) to eliminate the risk of sparks which could ignite fuel vapours.

I was under the impression that the movable surface where this marking appears is electrically bonded to the airframe to reduce electrostatic EMI (Radio noise). Is this the same thing as “Wired Throughout?
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Allan

As far as I know, yes!

Thanks Blueyonder

It stands for

“Wired throughout” 🙂