Not off the wall at all. That's what I propose. I'm replacing my center section. Someone take my old main spar with 12 additional holes and test it!
Until we do that, this is online rhetoric debate worthy of my High School Debate Club! Dave --- In [email protected], lone...@... wrote: > > This may be completely "off the wall" but I wonder if it would be > reasonable to suggest that load testing be done to investigate the effect of > these > holes to confirm Fred Weick's opinion and possibly show that the failure > forces were way beyond any normal conditions. I believe Marv Dunlap did > some failure analysis on his four passenger project. Perhaps he has some > relevant info. If such a test could be done at a reasonable cost perhaps > Univair would be willing to do it or maybe the EOC could raise the money or > some > combination of resources might accomplish it. I can see that it would > require some fairly expensive parts that might be sacrificed and a competent > person to design , execute and document the test but I expect the test > itself > might be fairly simple. I imagine there are others on the forum who would > be qualified to comment on this layperson's suggestion. > Jim Graham > N2418H > 1946 415 C >
