I recall a LAME once showing me the result of pilots flying down to the circuit at just below VNE levelling out and putting the first stage of flap out. Serious cracking around the rivets on the flap leading edges. God knows what the stresses were doing to the operating mechanisms.
Boy.. I had to read this sentence 3 times until I realised that you wrote
LAME and not
DAME. Makes perfect sense now, cheers!