ORIGINAL: Woketman
Well then why not cut the wings in half and lighten the airframe? Because you would then have to land at a faster speed. Not a great trade off.
Tell that to all the owners of clipped wing Cubs.
The purpose of anhedral and dihedral is to deal with stability, not to make the plane land faster or slower, to lighten the airframe, or to make it stronger. As said earlier a by-product is
slightly less tension on the wing as Shaun tried to allude to.
It's not wocket science... but it could be
