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Old 6th Jan 2012, 07:55
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StallBoy
 
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Anyone who has flown on a 380 and watched the wing bend and flex would have worries about how long this large piece of Aluminium that seems to have a strange bending moment about two thirds along it's length will last. Unlike other aircraft like the 747 which seems to have a uniform flexing of the wing along it's whole length the 380 has a totally different way of flexing so much so that I try to do my long haul flights to London on anything else except a 380. I hope that I am wrong but it looks like problems are just starting to appear.
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