davidfuerst
Grandpa Dave
davidfuerst

Yes... The avionics (black boxes for us stress analysts), the guns, and thank god the pilots... Maybe some other stuff too can be cannibalized from the aircraft.

Spot on... If it had exceed DUL (Design Ultimate Loads) which are DLL (Design Limit Loads) times a Ultimate FS (Factor of Safety) of 1.50, then the wings could have come off. The airframe has probably experience some serious yielding... G-pa Dave

How about in 1940 at Willow Run... B-24 Liberator bombers at a rate of 25 per day
That was the great generation.