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Originally Posted by T@T
I'm still interested in seeing how that fuselage holds up after multiple lightning strikes and possible problems with moisture, Wing parts made with some composite materials is one thing but a fuselage is pressurized and as far as I know the whole fuselage is made from composites.
Think I'll wait awhile before I jump on one of these puppys  |
By that reasoning you should fly on one sooner rather than let them get older!
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Originally Posted by T@T
The first flight wouldn't be much but now they'll go crazy on the airframe doing things that should never come up on commercial flights. They'll do high G maneuvers even low speed barrel rolls to make sure it wont fall apart, they will slam it into the ground (very rough landings)..etc.
Pretty much everything they can think of to make sure it will be safe for the public. Usually the crazy stuff is done by air-force pilots (at least it use to be that way anyway)
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Barrell rolls? Haha, I wish. Those days are long gone, I believe the last Boeing commercial airliner to be barrel rolled was the 707:
Around the 0:55 mark.
Those were the crazy Tex Johnson days, although a well excecuted barrel roll will not put any more than 1g on an aircraft.