Originally Posted by
runway1
Talk to a machanical or materials engineer and you'll get a far better understanding.
I suppose a
machanical engineer specializes in supersonic aviation (lol).
Anyway, not all mechanical engineers disagree with "Sam Rensho" -- his premise (that the compliance of the non-frame parts overwhelms the compliance of the frame) is sound from an engineering perspective, as far as it goes. The frame material true believers either base their beliefs on subjective experience (can you say "placebo"?) or on more complicated engineering concepts.