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When you have one of the fabulous 98 lbs wings from OMS, you need to get all that extra material out of the way of ceilings if your doing wreck penetrations or something similar.
I saw one this weekend at Peacock Springs. I laughed and thought to myself if he fell over it wouldn't hurt, those Boeing sized wings would take him sloooowly to the ground :popcorn:
The bungees will force the air into an non-bungeed side of the wing.
Funny thing. I just put air in my wing and roll a little bit, and it goes into one side, and if I'm in trim, it can't get out and go to the other side. I suppose if you don't dive in trim, it might be an issue to do that.
I wonder if the OP feels as though he got a good answer to his original question?
Like so many other controversial equipment choices, the bungied wing is probably not a serious hazard in and of itself. Personally I think the problem with them is that the bungie is usually used to try to contain a wing that's way too big for the given application. If you take the bungie off the wing you still have a wing that's too big.
The bungies are not so tight that they will force all the gas out of the wing; in fact, they may be more likely to trap gas in the wing.
Hogarthian principles should apply in wing selection; enough lift, but any more than is necessary is a negative. Then the whole bungie debate becomes moot as you simply have no need to contain the wing.
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The bungees will force the air into an non-bungeed side of the wing.
Originally Posted by TSandM
Funny thing. I just put air in my wing and roll a little bit, and it goes into one side, and if I'm in trim, it can't get out and go to the other side. I suppose if you don't dive in trim, it might be an issue to do that.
I wonder if the OP feels as though he got a good answer to his original question?
LOL, Lynn.
I should have put the "pros" part of my post in quotes. Something I have read here and elsewhere.
My point was, if one is to claim a benefit of a bungeed wing is it's ability to balance the gas, then he must acknowledge that the bungee affects the volume of of gas in the wing.
Tim
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