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Old 7th Jan 2017, 09:08
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Owain Glyndwr
 
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@ChuChu

The first action then would be wing twisting, not bending.
Two remarks:

Throughout the wing the fuel is more or less equally distributed fore and aft of the wingbox structural torsional axis, so fuel inertia loads don't contribute much torque.

At or near the root the wing thickness gives a very high torsional stiffness, so any twisting deflections there are minimal
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