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Old 26th Mar 2011, 23:18
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glhcarl
 
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I wonder how many cycles this airframe will log until cracks appear in the skin of the unpressurized area.
It depends on the loads experanced. The un-pressurized wings skins are a lot thicker than fuselage skins but that can start cracking a very low hours/cycles!
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