109JB's Kitfox IV rebuild

[109JB]

I was doing a little on the airplane today and came across something that puzzles me. The flaperons on this airplane appear to be multiple piece units with a joint at every hinge location. I forgot to take a close up but you can somewhat see it in this picture. Basically it has 4 short flaperons and they have about a 1/4-inch gap between them with a small tab at the trailing edge to keep them aligned there. The gap is covered with a bit of white duct tape. Not sure I'm too keen on this arrangement but apparently it works. I've tried searching both on the forum and on the internet but can't find anything on this. Anyone know about this? My other Kitfox IV has one piece flaperons.

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Edit: Zoomed in you can actually see it pretty well. Here are a couple cropped showing the joints. They still have some tape on then in these.

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