They pull those wings up at the tips, no?

mike

"Matt Whiting" wrote in message
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I've seen a few videos of airliner wings stressed to failure and when they
fail it looks like a small explosion with debris flying everywhere, but
much of that is the test apparatus flying around. The failure occurred at
a point. It simply isn't possible to design a wing perfectly enough or,
harder yet, assemble it uniformly enough to get a distributed failure.

Matt