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Old 22nd Mar 2019, 17:19
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If it ever got to the stage where fuel would have to be carried for ballast, then you would simply beef up the wing structure at the design stage, surely.
The extra weight would help reduce the bending moment.
Why go to the trouble of designing a lightweight structure, and then adding weight?
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