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I have just been told there is something called a strain gauge inside WWII fighter cockpits that gives flight instrumentation for wing bending... Anyone knows how they work, or how they are calibrated? How is the data correlated to actual stresses on the wings? Thanks in advance. G.

Hello everyone. I wanted to know if, for low wing single engine nose-driven prop aircrafts, there has ever been a measurement done, while in flight, of the actual amount of wing bending occurring during sustained level turns at a measured G force, including full power sustained turns...