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Old Mar 23, 2013 | 1:15 am
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Originally Posted by dunk
There's a YouTube video of the 777 wing flex being tested to destruction. Pretty impressive:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ai2HmvAXcU0
One of the 787's wing too:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sA9Kato1CxA

One interesting difference, is with the 787 it is only one of the wings and the wing box being tested.

BTW, the 367 was a jet.
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