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Battens falling out of a trike wing during flight: Revision

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Categories: Trike Talk

A few months ago I watched a trike crash video. It was somewhere in Russia. It was a fatal crash. 

This trike was a single person trike with a 80 hp 912 on it. In the comments, there were many opinions (guesses) as to what caused it. Some pilots were of the opinion that there was too much torque. 

One person said the cause of crash was battens falling out of the wing during take off deforming the wing causing the crash. Can this really happen? 

My current trike wing has strings to hold battens in their place. My questions is 

1) How much pressure (if any) is on these batten strings, especiallly during flight? 

2) Is Bungee string a better way vs just the regular strings becuase a bungee can stretch under pressure? 

3) Can these batten strings actually break in flight? 

4) If a batten string breaks in flight, how likely is it that a batten would slide out of the wing and fall out? 

5) If one is faced with such scenario where the batten is falling out, what is the best course of action? 

Thanks, 

Rizzy