Wing Spar Inspection

[WebMaster]

Seems reasonable, to delay as much as possible. To be safe, you would like to know that there is no problem. However, if a problem is discovered, there is no remedy. By that I mean, you can't add a doubler, you can't re-inforce something. You must remove the wing. Then the question is, can you find a spar, intact, that you can use. Most likely, you'll be looking for a new wing from a salvage yard. I would suspect that will take some time, because you need a plane that was trashed, but had no damage to the wing.

At our fly-in at PWA, Don Neiser showed us a wing that had failed the test. The wing was scrap.

[KyleTownsend]

Interesting.

Like others, I had not been aware of any birds that had failed the test.

Does anyone know how many have?

Is there a source for this kind of information (FAA database or something)?

Kyle

[WebMaster]

I would imagine, that obviously there was one, hence the AD. Someone wrote something that I found profound, but can't remember. Something like our knowledge is built on the mistakes and blood of others.

Anyway, there had to have been at least one, and they developed the AD as a result of that experience. Don has one, but it did not fail in flight. I do not know how many others are out there, just I don't want mine to be one of them.