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Old 9th Nov 2019, 19:55
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Originally Posted by DownWest
Bit depressing, doing aeros in a 54 yr old wooden a/c that is not approved for them. Sounds like the main spar failed.
Not that I would ever advocate to do it but a roll is a 1G maneuver and a loop shouldn’t take more then 2-2.5.....if properly executed.
Now if the tail fails first then the wing will usually fail under the negative load.
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