"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
news:W9mUf.840188$x96.700068@attbi_s72...
For sure. At OSH '04, our tent -- with 1 inch aluminum poles -- blew
over onto the wing of Atlas, our '74 Piper Pathfinder.

Those very stout tent poles [...]

I thought you said they were "1 inch aluminum poles".

Not to discount your point about the potential of harm to the interior wing
structure (which is valid IMHO), but I'll bet you could take one of those 1
inch aluminum poles and easily bend it over your knee.

Pete