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18th Dec 2009, 14:50

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XPMorten

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the wings are designed to flex.
At max load (around 4 G's) they will deflect 26 feet.
The first flight was all about testing controls and check
for flutter which one can imagine can be a risk
with such an extreme bending wing.

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