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To: driftdiver

“...Something like a wing collapsing on final would be a real downer....”

But you’d be on the ground faster. ;-)


12 posted on 11/28/2007 9:39:48 AM PST by NCC-1701 (PUT AN END TO ORGANIZED CRIME. ABOLISH THE I.R.S.)
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To: NCC-1701

“But you’d be on the ground faster. ;-)”

Its not the fall that kills ya, its that sudden stop at the bottom.


16 posted on 11/28/2007 9:41:50 AM PST by driftdiver
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To: NCC-1701

Wing failure during an accelerated stall or high G turn, or strong thermal would worry me. :)


22 posted on 11/28/2007 9:45:57 AM PST by papasmurf (FRed Thompson...That's been your mantra, all along. You're just an anti-FRed gnat!)
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