THE VIDEO SHELF · aircraft structural testing
Boeing 777 Wing Test
A short video of a Boeing 777 wing being tested to destruction, finally breaking at 154 percent of its designed limit load. The wing is flexed upward until it fails.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN links it constantly as vivid evidence of how much margin aircraft structures have and that destructive testing is real.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- mtthw0
- Topic
- aircraft structural testing
- Format
- demo
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 10
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2013–2023
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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Planes come to mind. Basically, back in the age of the slide ruler, engineers "overcompensated" in durability. This is why older planes are much heavier (so more inefficient and costly to run) but also last forever. PS: Not to crap on the structural engineering of …
vanderZwan on Hacker News · 2015-02
In The Last of the Typewriter MenSince you are posting on HN and I'm guessing you are technically minded, you might find this really interesting: [VIDEO] - it's a video from a documentary about the development of the Boeing 777. Specifically, the video shows a test where they bend/stress the 777 …
sjm-lbm on Hacker News · 2018-07
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