Comment by greenavocado
1 day ago
That plane is extremely hollow; you can clearly see the deformation because its not extremely rigid. It's some sort of thin high strength fabric over a minimal skeleton.
1 day ago
That plane is extremely hollow; you can clearly see the deformation because its not extremely rigid. It's some sort of thin high strength fabric over a minimal skeleton.
I'm not sure what you are basing that assessment on. Hollowness is a given for an aircraft of it's size, but I can't say I see any signs of it being extremely so. At least from the pictures of the article it is definitely not clear that it would be deforming unusually much.
Quickly checking the construction is carbon fiber, which is kinda no-brainer.