A hard stop arrangement for a folding wing tip

A folding wing tip arrangement in an aircraft wing, the arrangement comprising a fixed wing and a wing tip device rotatable about a hinge at the tip of the fixed wing,

• wherein the wing is configurable between:
• (i) a flight configuration for use during flight and
• (ii) a ground configuration for use during ground-based operations, in which ground configuration the wing tip device is rotated away from the flight configuration such that the span of the aircraft wing is reduced,
• wherein the arrangement comprises a moveable panel arranged such that, when the wing is in the ground configuration the panel is in an open position to accommodate relative movement between the fixed wing and the wing tip device, and when the wing is in the flight configuration the panel is in a closed position, in which closed position, the panel is substantially flush with an adjacent cover on the fixed wing and an adjacent cover on the wing tip device,
• wherein the panel comprises a multiplicity of hard stop strike faces integrally formed in the panel,
• and wherein a plurality of hard stops elements are integrally formed in a rib at the tip of the fixed wing, and plurality of hard stop elements are integrally formed in the cover at the root of the wing tip device,
• the wing assembly being arranged such that when the panel is in the closed position, each of the hard stop strike faces abuts a corresponding hard stop element,
• and wherein each hard stop strike face and each corresponding hard stop element, is shaped such that the hard stop strike face self-aligns with the corresponding hard stop element, when the panel is closed.