Originally Posted by
Check Airman
When airbus designed the stall warning to cut out at 60kts, I'm sure they had the idea that you'd be firmly on the ground at 60kts.
Obviously Boeing and Airbus have some very clever and very talented people working for them, but I'm not particularly excited about an automatic fold feature.
I think you can be pretty confident that any automatic wing fold function will be inhibited unless 'on-ground' is true.
Back in the 1960's, there was a 707 that suffered an uncontained outboard engine failure. Due to the resultant damage and fire, they eventually lost not only the engine, but all the wing outboard of the engine pylon. Even with that much damage, the aircraft was readily controllable and landed safely.
There are far, far worse in-flight failure scenarios than loosing a few feet of wingtip lift...