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CuaC Posted at 2017-6-22 03:08
Aircraft fuselage is measured in cycles, because of the compression/decompression to keep a breathable atmosphere inside the plane. Nothing you could relate to the mavic's "fuselage" as there's no pressure needed for our flights.
For durability I would say nobody could measure it in km or hours. Not every flight is the same, some pilots fly sports mode a lot, do rapid descents / ascents or changes of speed/direction, while others go slowly.. It really depends.
If you re-read my post, I cited the fuselage as an example to show how in the same apparatus you can have 2 different indicators of the useful life of it and its components. Have you heard about fatigue by thermal cycling? This could explain a lot of the cracked battery cases and AC covers that people are seeing in their MAVIC's, this will be related directly to the flight cycles, which will expose the fuselage to different temperatures. So, yes flight cycles do affect the MAVIC not because of pressure (which was never intended to be said)but because of temperature.
But well, unless your last name is Shigley (he is dead btw) or you are some kind of undiscovered Mechanical Engineering Guru. The best way to measure life out of a part, component or final assembly is by usage time or cycles. This also applies to the MAVIC which from what I know does not fly because of magic or the power of wish. It's a mechanical apparatus and uses the principles of physics to which we are bound.
Cheers!
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