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Old September 22nd 10, 08:52 AM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Bruce Hoult
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Default wings came off

On Sep 22, 7:33*pm, John Smith wrote:
tienshanman wrote:
This embarrassing aerial crack up is not a very good advertisement for
any glider, but especially not for an UL that sells for


You can break *any* aircraft by pulling too many Gs.


It's got to be especially tricky when you've only got a 70 knot Vne to
work with.

We think we have to be careful when we're in a glider with only a 108
or 119 knot Vne!