In rec.aviation.student More_Flaps wrote:
If you enter a spiral dive as I surmised, the wings fall off either when
you exceed Vne or when you exceed the maximum loading the wings can
support, whichever comes first. However it would seem that whether this
happens or not will depend on the airplane in question.

If the plane is in a steady dive at 2x VNE what is the wing loading?
VNE may be set by srface instability (flutter) or perhaps engine
overspeed but is not set by wing loading -that is Va -at least that's
my understanding.

In a steady *spiral* dive the wing loading will be determined by your bank
angle. I think you may have misread my sentence; I did not mean to imply
that having the wings come off due to excess loading was in any way
related to Vne, it's just due to an ever-tightening spiral, if you
actually get into one and you reach the excess wing loading before you
reach excess speed.

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