Originally Posted by
Pilot DAR
Part 23 airplanes are required to be flutter free with the flight control system intact. ... My certified airplane does not have any flight control counter balance weights, by design, so has a very slow Vne as a flutter margin.
FAR 23 introduced this requirement many years ago (somewhat changed since, especially for small simple airplanes): "
after the failure, malfunction, or disconnection of any single element in the primary flight control system, any tab control system".