Boeing 747 long geronde beam distortion

Mentioned in passing as the kind of focused problem Tom considers a good ten-minute student presentation topic.

The presentations should be about ten minutes, which means no more than ten overheads. In general it's a very good rule, one minute per overhead. Not too broad. I don't want to solve world hunger, or how to make an automobile — that's a little too broad. How to build a 747 is a little broad. But if you want to get down to the problem of distortion on the longerons, which are the beams in the 747, that's a good topic. I could give you the ten-minute dissertation on that right now because I've been involved in it.