http://www.dg-download.de/Videos/dg-...terversuch.mpg


Dang! I can't believe the wings didn't snap off.

How did he stop it? I would think pulling back (to load up the wings)
would be your only hope?

IT appears that it was a test flight, and the pilot was transmitting his
observations in German. I couldn't understand most of it, but it seemed
he started out saying "fifty" ("fumfzig") and ended with "thirty"
("dreizig"), with commentary in the middle. I therefore speculate that
the test was to show an airspeed regime in which there was a flutter
problem.

Glider wings are pretty strong. I've never flown one, but I understand
that they hit some pretty strong gusts and pull some tight turns in an
effort to remain in the air on the force of rising or blowing air alone.

Jose
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