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Old 8th Feb 2005, 10:38
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Just to clear up any doubt, I recently had an email from a colleague who works at airbus, which said
The A380 static test specimen (ES) was subjected to limit wing bending on 2nd February. The test went very well and the team monitoring the strain gauges reported no causes for concern right up to limit load, in fact correlation with the predictions was very good. This was a very significant milestone in the certification phase of the A380 and was witnessed by members of the JAA, Airbus Airworthiness & senior technical managers from the Central Entity.
The next test will be the Ultimate load, and then they actually go on to break the wing, just to see how much it'll really take, and when that breaks it'll make a very large bang!
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