Testing On The Cheap

"Brian Whatcott" schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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And it is much the same with airframes: you know where the heavy point
loads are applied, [engine mount, seats??] so if you support at those
points, and load the wing,
then you are going to live a long happy life.

absolutely not so! the seats are designed to carry max passenger weight
times safe G-load times 1.5 (usually). This is way less than the 2 tons you
will pack on the wings. Same with the engine mount. I don't like to know how
many guys flying around in a pre-damaged structure caused by stupid static
load testing.