You could say that at least the wings of all airplanes are strong as hell, since they essentially hold the entire weight of the aircraft up, with the addition of overcoming gravity during the initial climb...
took me 30 minutes to write this since I found THIS link to ensure I wasn't talking out of my butt and spreading an old wive's tale. I'm an aviation structural mechanic and this page had a bit more about lift than I was ever taught 
Just broke my personal record for number of consecutive days without dying!
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