ORIGINAL: littlera
A guy at Joe Nall reportedly lost a $6k gasser because he had no kill switch when there was a throttle failure at full power (servo?) He pulled the wings off the plane trying to fly it full out till it ran out of fuel. Some large gassers are just not designed for extended full power flight.
I'm sorry both for his loss and your misunderstanding of the problems he had. It is clear (to me) that his aircraft was NOT really airworthy or the wings would have stayed on.