On 6/8/2010 9:27 AM, [email protected] wrote:
"If they are strong enough to hold the airplane down, they should be
strong enough to hold the airplane up
This presumes the load is the same up or down (not so, the load up is 1
G while it is unlikely the load down would ever reach 1 G) and that the
structure is equally strong in compression and tension (also unlikely).
When the aircraft is in flight the brunt of the lift force is generated
by the portion of the wing inboard of the tiedown whereas when the plane
is supported at the tiedown point all of the "lift" is centered at that
point.
We report, you decide...
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John Cooper
Skyport East
www.skyportservices.net
