Ask yourself did god give birds aluminum feathers? NO. Yes you can put rag wings on an ALON A-2 it's a very easy bolt on STC'd fix and unfortunately the plane that did it also had an owner, a dear firiend try to do rolls in it. We (me and the FAA) looked at and drilled out nearly very every rivet in the wings, they were'nt at fault. One had a outer wing panel fail at an estimated perhaps 200+ mph and then entered an inverterted 80 degree down angle at perhaps 240+ mph. Although both wings were still bolted on and the controls basically functional nothing was really salvagable from them at those terminal speeds.
My point is there was no reason to reconsider the approval for rag wings on the alon ariframe and the C-85 engine Joe had chosen to put on the Alon frame as well./tom
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