Timeline for Do wings actually flex upon landing (especially hard landings)?
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| Feb 20, 2022 at 12:14 | answer | added | Dohn Joe | timeline score: 3 | |
| Feb 20, 2022 at 5:52 | answer | added | Mark Foskey | timeline score: 2 | |
| Feb 20, 2022 at 1:21 | comment | added | blacksmith37 | They flex when parked on the ground. | |
| Feb 19, 2022 at 23:02 | answer | added | Anthony X | timeline score: 2 | |
| Feb 19, 2022 at 22:22 | comment | added | Luke Briggs | Can see wing flex midair during the somewhat viral video storm Eunice at Heathrow airport from friday too - it certainly happens at all phases during flight. | |
| Feb 19, 2022 at 19:13 | comment | added | TLW | Also looking down long corridors on ships during heavy seas. | |
| Feb 19, 2022 at 16:05 | comment | added | Mazura | It's even cooler when the floor starts moving up and down like an articulated bus. If everything didn't flex, all of it would break. | |
| Feb 19, 2022 at 15:01 | comment | added | John Bollinger | Fun fact: if you are seated in the right place, you can observe this from inside the plane. Which can be a little unnerving. | |
| Feb 18, 2022 at 20:29 | comment | added | Harper - Reinstate Monica | So does your car's chassis. You don't get to build any transportation vehicle without studying this at length, and designing your vehicle so all normal flexure happens in the elastic range (bouncing back), and not the plastic range (de-forming) for that metal and thickness. If you want to see "plastic" forces, watch Dukes of Hazzard. Most of those Dodge Chargers did not survive those jumps. | |
| Feb 18, 2022 at 16:51 | comment | added | Wyck | It appears they do! | |
| Feb 18, 2022 at 16:46 | comment | added | BillThePlatypus | One thing you learn in engineering is that everything is a spring, and everything flexes to different degrees. | |
| Feb 18, 2022 at 12:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackAviation/status/1494642865917595689 | ||
| Feb 17, 2022 at 22:48 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Feb 17, 2022 at 20:07 | answer | added | niels nielsen | timeline score: 30 | |
| Feb 17, 2022 at 16:03 | comment | added | WPNSGuy | Not just in flight, on the ground as well. Taxing, you can see the wingtip flex up and down a couple of cm. | |
| Feb 17, 2022 at 15:34 | answer | added | Salomanuel | timeline score: 3 | |
| Feb 17, 2022 at 15:09 | answer | added | Jack Deeth | timeline score: 15 | |
| Feb 17, 2022 at 15:07 | comment | added | Jim | Wings flex during all phases of flight. | |
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| S Feb 17, 2022 at 14:48 | history | asked | Aviation Enthusiast | CC BY-SA 4.0 |