Sym P. le's latest activity

Or we can keep deluding ourselves that the wheels fell off? My initial frame by frame review was of a poor quality video. I thought I...

I put up a new video edit of the landing on Youtube that shows the intensity of the touchdown in Hi Res. A few additional frames...

From the build it video, we can derive the wing/fuselage connections. It's easy to see how the rear fuselage connection can punch out...

Thanks, I misread the chart. Even so it's worth noting there could have been 3,000 lbs. of fuel in the wing (or what ever the...

A suggestion posted on PPRuNe that the aircraft could have been carrying a return trip fuel load, so perhaps 10,000 lbs remaining in the...

Does anyone recognize this part? I'm curious about the structure aft of the landing gear bracket. The flap system likely requires some...

No $*#!@ way the wing spar is designed to break apart. Unless they're a turkey after the feast, they're full of stuffing. I talked to...

When the aircraft lands hard, the weight of the fuselage, including the engines, passengers and luggage, can punch through the wing...

Notwithstanding its appearance in the image in post #103, the left gear diagonal brace may also be detached. The diagonal brace may not...

A better crop of the brace

Wing root and right main gear diagonal brace (snapped off at the gear connection)

I believe this Airworthiness Directive is about adding some line items to the Maintenance Requirements Manual (MRM) Airworthiness...

I have the advantage of working on the individual frames prior to gifing. They're just a touch better. I wasn't expecting great things...

blancolirio already has them up.

The diagonal brace doesn't push into the spar though, it pushes/pulls off the fuselage, well towards the centreline of the aircraft...