Wanna see an airplane break up from flutter?
Watch the movie clip:
http://www.velozia.com/?p=1387
BTW, the Auguste Raspet Memorial Department of Aeronautical
Engineering at Mississippi State University does flutter testing on
airplanes, including experimentals. Bring your checkbook.
White Lightning designer and Citadel-educated engineer Nick Jones had
the White Lightning successfully tested there.
I have balanced a set of flight controls with lead embedded in the
leading edges--- rudder, elevator, ailerons --- for the White
Lightning; and no, they are not completely balanced, just enough to
avoid flutter up to about 350 kts. This is a 220 kt. cruise aircraft.