# How sensitive to disruption / efficient are modern airliner wings?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [December 4, 2025, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-sensitive-to-disruption-efficient-are-modern-airliner-wings/1025398 "2025-12-04T14:14:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2025, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-sensitive-to-disruption-efficient-are-modern-airliner-wings/1025398/2 "2025-12-04T14:35:15Z")

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Paging our resident pilots, who tend to hang out in our [Aviation omnibus thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-ongoing-aviation-thread-general-and-other/600499/8932):

@LSLGuy  
@Johnny_L.A  
@Richard_Pearse

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