a380 broken wing
hello sunfish,
tell me why pilots may not talk about structural engineering matters? after all, we sit upfront & have first hand experience how the aircraft behaves in the real world. i agree engineers should design safe aircraft & pilots should fly the the thing safely as well. problems arise if engineers want to fly aircraft & vice versa for the pilots. but that doesn't mean everyone might not express his/her opinion about the matter
for info : designload for public transport aircraft= -1/+2.5g
ultimate load = +50% of designload= -1.5/+3.75g
and fully laden aircraft have & will fly through TS(damn fool pilots that is)