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How can the body of the airbus A380 withstand to hold such long and heavy wings without breaking?

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How can the body of the airbus A380 withstand to hold such long and heavy wings without breaking?

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  1. Your answer lies here:

    http://www.aviationearth.com/aircraftdat...


  2. You have that backwards.  The wings hold everything else up.  The real design genius behind modern aircraft is that the wings are strong enough to hold the body and all the fuel.

    The two different sections (wings and fuselage) are mated at the connection point.  The wings are not only strong enough to carry the rest of the aircraft, in modern airplanes its not uncommon for them to be strong enough to withstand 30G accelerations.  That means the wings can withstand the stress imposed by the weight of everything else on the plane multiplied by 30.  Very strong and well engineered.

  3. With proper engineering, there's no difficulty in supporting such large wings.

    Unfortunately, the wings of the A380 were not properly engineered initially and failed their structural tests.  They were partially redesigned and reinforced and they finally passed, so they should be safe now.

  4. The wings hold the body.

    The wing structure is actually one piece which goes all the way through the bottom of the fuselage (body) and the fuselage rests on top of it.

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