That explains why most early airplanes were bi-planes!

Mike Schumann

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"Joe Sterling" wrote in message
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Well Sir, that's alarming.

A 60 year old plane with cracks in both wings. And still allowed to
fly. No, fearful flyer, don't worry about the wings falling off.
Can't happen. Unless it does. Then, you're quite abruptly....dead.

But we have redundancies... Two radios in case one goes south on us... Two
magnetos... To wings in case one decides to fall off...