Schempp Hirth or its Representatives...

Th DG website has an article and video of the destruction testing of the DG
1000 wing during certification. Also a section on the Fuse tests and a link
to another page regarding the regs the all gliders are built to.
Worth a read. The video is spectacular.
URL is http://www.dg-flugzeugbau.de/ Then click on DG 1000 and its there.
Cheers
Paul


"Steve Davis" wrote in message
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At 02:42 18 September 2003, Janus2k wrote:
John,
If you are still wondering about the 4DM breakup, read
the NTSB report.
From reading the report, the plane did not fail.

Mark
Actually the wings did fail. They presumably failed
above their design load limit. but they still failed
in flight causing the crash. A better question would
be, how much of a design cushion is there between the
load limit and actual failure of the wing?