On Fri, 09 Sep 2005 18:19:07 GMT, john smith wrote in
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That Airworthiness Directive was a result of a number of in-flight
failures attributed to flutter wasn't it? It was a necessary design
change to deal with an unanticipated problem inherent in the original
design, IIRC.

Not flutter, over stressed by exceeding design speeds.

Right. That makes sense.