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The wings on this Airbus flex way more than they should
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A one-minute clip from Insider showing an Airbus airliner's wings flexing far more than most people expect during a wing load test. It is meant to reassure nervous flyers about turbulence.
HN commenters link it to show how much stress airliner wings are designed to withstand, especially in turbulence and crash threads.
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