I sold it a few years ago. After we moved up into the mountains,
the round-trip time to the airport just made flying impractical
(over an hour each way).
Yes. Same kind of plane. However JD made a number of bone-headed
decisions that made his demise all but a foregone conclusion. If
we have a few minutes at the computer museum, I can cover some of
the more major bad decisions that were made. Plus the fuel
selector mechanism that had been installed on that particular
airplane was kind of a kluge on top of a Rube Goldberg setup.
Stupid. Stupid. Stupid.
bp
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On 7/16/2018 8:57 AM, Chuck McCown
wrote:
Do you still have the plane?
Is that what John Denver was flying on his final trip?
Sent: Monday, July 16, 2018 9:44 AM
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] How to reliably cool a
small enclosure in direct sunlight?
When I was building the Long-EZ, there was a debate among
fiberglass airplane builders about the tolerable
temperatures for ambient-temp cured fiberglass/epoxy
structures. The point being that too high heat would be
"very bad" for a fiberglass/epoxy airplane.
So Burt Rutan and his crew did a bunch of tests using
various colors. What they found was that pure white had
the lowest heat gain of any color. Black the worst. Silver
was right up there with gray. Almost any tint had a
significant heat gain over ambient.
I painted my EZ pure white with no tints whatsoever. It
did have blue/gold trim colors, but the trim was basically
just accent stripes on the fuselage and winglets.
bp
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On 7/16/2018 8:31 AM, Chuck
McCown wrote:
Foil or shiny silver stuff seems to draw more
heat than black paint for some reason.
I think it is black in the infra red spectrum.
Just leave a
chrome plated wrench out in the sun for a few
hours.
Black wrench
will be much cooler.
You can
actually pick up the black wrench but you can
get a blister from picking up and holding a
chrome one.
One of my kids
still has a scar from the chrome tab of a car
seat belt.
We knew she
hated to be put in the car seat, figured all
the screaming was just the normal objections.
Sent: Monday, July 16, 2018 9:24 AM
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] How to reliably
cool a small enclosure in direct sunlight?
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