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Boeing 777 Wing Test
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A short video of a Boeing 777 wing being tested to destruction, finally breaking at 154 percent of its designed limit load. The wing is flexed upward until it fails.
HN links it constantly as vivid evidence of how much margin aircraft structures have and that destructive testing is real.
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