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Missing a few feet of wing in the pictures, for sure, but
that doesn't mean that it happened in flight, nor that it flew that way. I've seen similar pictures of aircraft damaged that way on the ground by trucks or other aircraft, or even by bad landings in strong crosswinds. Even taxying too close to a signpost at excessive speed could do it. The end of the wing is badly mashed and would present huge drag and really serious controllability problems. Let's see: Mashed left wingtip, massive drag requiring all the rudder he has, maybe not enough at that. Loss of lift from mashed wing section (disturbed airflow) requiring extra lift from aileron, which itself is a third gone Loss of lift because part of wing is missing, meaning more aileron required. Those ailerons simply can't make up the difference. And nobody noticed. Right. The engine is probably a Soloy conversion, more common on 206s. An Allison turbine set up to drive a prop. Dan |
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