regle, were your comments about the Wellington stretching when towing a glider for real, or tongue in cheek?
Was tested for towing Gliders for D.Day but measured more than a foot longer when it landed due to the geodetics.
I can see the geodetic frame possibly stretching, but if that did in fact happen, what happened to the flight control runs etc? (I could see something like that having the potential for some 'really interesting' flight control problems for the pilot!)