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Old 3rd Sep 2009, 19:19
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RIHoward
 
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Meteor Phantom Dive

Probably caused by Fatigue failure in the tail plane, which had two spars. The whole assembly was tested for strength, but they had not accounted for a halving in the components strength when the skin would rip starting at rivet holes There's a paper in the Cranfield archive C.P No. 88 (14,192) A.R.C. Technical Report from May 1951, that details the errors the designers made when calculating the stresses on this component,
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