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A Weighty Problem Fred George’s “Aircraft Weight Integrity” (July 2018) underscores a problem that pilots often ignore at their peril. Over time, airplanes tend to gain weight, even as their engines degrade, inching toward TBO. But a wing can only support a finite load, and this fact is sometimes...

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