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Old 8th Jan 2017, 19:33
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Originally Posted by Kulverstukas
There is no "fuel tanks", wing itself is filled with kerosene. This pink stuff you can see inside is hermetic cover.
Thank you Kulverstukas. So it`s got wet wings, nevertheless it would still be housed in a box structure within the top and bottom outer wings skins. As can be seen on the photo the bottom skin panels are gone. This suggests the vector of forces acting must have been forward of the bottom of the wing, but at a fairly large angle of attack. I believe the result would still remain the same. Fuel would act as a ram in its continuing forward travel whilst the wing has rapidly decelerated.
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