On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 20:10:40 +0100, Mycroft wrote:

Can anyone think instances when an AC has been push beyond it's limits or
has done things it was never supposed too? The reason I ask is that I
recently read that when Lancasters were carrying Grandslams during WW2 the
engines were seriously over reved at take off because the bomb exceeded the
AC max payload weight by aprox 9000lbs.

Myc
Well, there are certainly instances of P-51s coming back with a few more
degrees of dihedral in the wings and maybe missing a bolt or two from
pulling out of dives that went way over the redline. Probably other
fighters as well.