On Oct 30, 10:56*am, "Vaughn Simon"
wrote:
"Martin Gregorie" wrote in message

...



Here's another pilot's account of a real wing fold.

http://www.aerobatics.org.uk/repeats...ng_failure.htm

* *I distinctly remember a wild story of a lucky fellow who survived after a
1-26 lost some important parts in a thunderstorm, but a Google search turns up
fruitless. *Does anyone remember?

Vaughn

http://www.ntsb.gov/NTSB/brief.asp?e...08X08467&key=1

The events preceding the wing separation as reported to the NTSB are
ahem not exactly the way the story was retold in the local
community.

-T8