TheSmokingGnu wrote:
Erik wrote:

I love the window seat, but dammit, I cannot look at the wing
ever. "Ok, if it didn't flex like that, it would be brittle
and snap. It's supposed to bounce, it's not supposed to break"

But nothing reassures me.


I find it helps in cases like these to watch a few videos of wing
loading tests, so you can see really just *how* far those wings can go
before breaking.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Uo0C01Fwb8

TheSmokingGnu

Holy crap. I thought the two to three foot deflection
I've seen was a lot. I had no idea that you could turn
an airplane into a U.