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Originally Posted by Joeaksa View Post
You both are partially correct.

Pressurization does stress the fuselage but how about wings? The wings and tail feathers on most -3's flying today are prolly still original, but inspected as needed.
Ah, sorry. I did not phrase that too well. I meant that the A380 wings seem to have a finer aspect ratio and the plane is meant to carry a large load (to make money), so the wings would flex more on the A380. But I don't have enough facts to back that up.
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