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Title: How Far Can You Bend a 777 Wing Before It Breaks?
Post by: TehBorken on Jan 22 07 08:05
How Far Can You Bend a 777 Wing Before It Breaks?

The answer: a hell of a lot. Pretty cool stuff, hit the link to see it.

[a  href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Uo0C01Fwb8"]Boeing 777 Wing Ultimate Load Test[/a]
 
Title: Re: How Far Can You Bend a 777 Wing Before It Breaks?
Post by: Russ on Jan 22 07 08:13
Neat!

  Have you seen some of the new fibreglass composites they have out? you can bend them 180 degrees then let go and they snap back with no damage.. Auto manufacturers are very interested.