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Old Dec 14, 2015 | 2:04 pm
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Wings falling off are pretty catastrophic. This wasn't even remotely close to that. It didn't even fall off, it was hanging down. The flap track "canoe" is a fairing goes over the tracks/acutators that move the flaps up/down.

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