On May 12, 11:41 am, Matt Whiting wrote:
Jose wrote:
each section
of the wing is only as strong as it needs to be. Therefore, the chance
of failure (at least ideally) is about equal anywhere along the wing

In fact, there's a video somewhere showing a stress test on a wing; the
entire wing fails pretty much at the same time.

Jose

I'd like to see that video as the odds of this happening are nearly zero.

Matt

Certainly one section would expect to fail first, either by chance or
because one section ends up being weaker for practical reasons. I've
seen the video, when the main spar fails the wing shatters, its a bit
difficult to tell where it failed because of the shattering.

-Robert