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Morgans wrote:
"Matt Whiting" wrote Not likely with an aluminum structure. The failure will quickly lessen the stress on the remaining structure and it will not self-destruct. I'm still waiting to see the video of this self-destructing wing. I'm betting it is urban legend, but if there's proof I'd love to see it. I remember seeing a show on the making of the 777, and it was in a giant wing testing rig, and it failed as was predicted at some certain spar number, but a bunch of the rest blew apart too, since when the one place failed. all of the stress was transferred to many other locations. That type of failure is the only way I can see it all failing at the same time, too. The odds of the whole wing failing at once is......Astronomical! I agree and that was my point. Having a few sheets of the skin fly off in close proximity to the spar failure point does not constitute self-destruction of the week as was claimed earlier. I just watched the 777 video and it is quite clear from both the visual evidence and the narrators comments that the wing failed at a specific location. Matt |
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