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Originally Posted by kirant
That's a bit simplistic. You have to consider the plane's weight distribution. A large amount of it is placed in the centre/the "bullet" shape of it. The wings are very light. If we threw on wings on a bullet and fired that, going with your example, and it hit a mesh of steel and glass, the "wings" on the bullet would break pretty quick.
I'm not denying that the plane's centre should be able to smash through the walls, but the wings are very thin and weak.
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Wings are not light....Fixed wing aircraft have a main wing spar that runs along a majority of the wing length and supports a large majority of the lift forces of the airplane. Not to mention fuel is carried in the wings. As far as mass and internal structure, wings are certainly not light