03-24-2021, 01:16 AM
Interesting, if you go through imagery of airliner crash sites, you rarely if ever see imprints of the wings. Often the engines will be found separately in their own depression often many meters away from the fuselage impact site, but the wings just never seem to make a significant dent even in something as soft as dirt. The only examples I can find is aircraft crashing into forest, at which time the wings seem to become giant brush cutters.
There must be a very good physical reason for this, perhaps the heaviest part of the wing is next the fuselage, so that a shearing impact causes them to fold up along the line of impact like a dart straightening it's flight through the air resistance on it's lightweight wingtip.
Maybe [member=827]capcom[/member] can tell us where the maximum air resistance is on a wing, I won't be at all surprised to find it's out near the wingtips.
There must be a very good physical reason for this, perhaps the heaviest part of the wing is next the fuselage, so that a shearing impact causes them to fold up along the line of impact like a dart straightening it's flight through the air resistance on it's lightweight wingtip.
Maybe [member=827]capcom[/member] can tell us where the maximum air resistance is on a wing, I won't be at all surprised to find it's out near the wingtips.
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