On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 15:30:06 GMT, EDR wrote in
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In article , Larry Dighera
wrote:

You've never flown aerobatics, have you?

I've only a couple of hours of aerobatic instruction.

Think combined spin and roll at high rate (greater than 300 degrees per
second). The forces exerted are dynamic, they are constantly changing
in direction and magnitude. In the spin, the nose is pitching up and
down while the yaw and roll components vary; the loss of a wing or
portion of a wing also impart their own yaw/pitch/roll components. The
amplitudes of each component are constantly varying.

Are you relating a firsthand experience? Or have you got a cite?

I don't doubt that such circumstances, and others, are possible and
occur, but my expectation would be that in the majority of cases,
egress would be a real possibility.

The fact that the wing failure and separation occurred at ~4,000',
would provide only about 17 seconds before impact at a terminal
velocity of 160 mph if the surface were at sea level. I would expect,
that's not much time in such a situation.