Rodney forgive me for my poor comunication skills. That is not what I was describing. What I was suggesting was rubber banding the wing but the difference is the front dowell. The rear dowell is tranverse across the fuselage as normal however the front dowell is now replaced with two dowells, one on each side oriented fore and aft. Now in any sudden deceleration the wing will simply push the bands straight forward and off far easier than a conventional banded wing. Yes its a bit harder to do than just drilling holes across the front of the cabin and sticking a dowell across but is far superior to any other method.

I have converted a large number of trainers over for other people and the results in the invarible 'Dings' have been most gratifying. The so called good old days of the fiftys while in reality not so good, this is one of the old fogotten techniques that modern trainees can certainly benefit from.

Trigger
What Sig is in fact responding to is not neccessarily better or more effective but just what the market wants, a fact evidenced by this pole. Of course if they did not do this they would not have lasted all these years. But that in no way negates the fact that for trainers used as trainers with the banded wing (particularly if the forward and aft oriented front dowells are used) will cause less emotional trauma for the trainee during the course of his training at some point.

John