Wing 'Safety Tips'
Have you ever heard of them. Have been reading about the Grumman Bearcat which had them and was wondering if any other types did.
"The wings of the early F8F were provided with 'Safety Tips', designed to fail when the wings were inadvertently overloaded in flight, thereby resulting in an aircraft with reduced span and greater ability to withstand high flight loads.
Because of fatal accidents, resulting from violent uncontrolled motions after loss of only one of the wingtips, a wing jettisoning device was developed for service installation and was intended to ensure that when one wingtip failed the other wingtip would be shed explosively, immediately after the initial tip failure. The safety wingtip feature was eventually eliminated because of the impossibility of making and maintaining a continuously reliable installation of the explosive wingtip shedding device in service aircraft."
Last edited by tcasblue; 28th Aug 2021 at 13:36.