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Originally posted by island911
"staring at a screen " !?
nah, structure guys get to break stuff. . . .sure, they "break it on the screen" a few times first, but vibe, ELT, stress/strain to ultimate strength. ..fun stuff.
If money is the goal, tho' . ..
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Hey, you of all people should know I was kidding about that part.
I have the utmost respect for youse screen-staring enguneerin type guys (and realize there's lots more to it than screen-starin'), I'm just envious.
Now that you mention the "break stuff" part, that would be awesome. One of the coolest things I've seen in my ultra-limited exposure was a failure test on the carbon wing structure of a (experimental) Lancair IV airplane. They did it the old fashioned way by continually adding sandbags until it finally gave up. You should have seen how many sandbags that thing held! Or who can forget that video of a Boeing 7XX wing/spar failure test. The amount of deflection was unreal until.........SNAP!!!
