Testing On The Cheap

"Brian Whatcott" schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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I'm thinking it would be stupid, or at least careless, if the load
were reacted through just one or two mount fixings.
Is that how the test was rigged?

roughly the setup was like this:
- plane upright
- tail and elevator loaded by about 430 lbs of bricks
- ailerons and flaps loaded by about 290 lbs of bricks
- both wings supported by 1.5 ton car jacks
- engine pushed down by about 1.100 lbs at position of the four attachment
points

I got a bad feeling before the test, but I have only two choices in my
country:
1: do this silly static test
2: reject it and never receive the permit to fly

I think the lower attach points can be repaired. Probably solid 3/4" rond
bars will be welded into the remaining tubes. However I lost some of my
confidence in this flying machine because I don't know what (invisible)
secondary damage may have occured.