Originally Posted by MichaelW
>>Now.. if CF was THAT weak... you think anyone would trust it on an aircraft surface like rudder? What if the damn thing shattered!!!?
You mean like the Airbus 800, American AirlinesFlight 587 in Belle Harbor, New York Nov 12, 2001. Pilot mis-training caused the tailfin to be over-stressed. It cracked and fell off, leading to the loss of 265 lives.
which btw - would have happened to an alum body just the same if the pilot went over the design specifications.