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The Piaggio P.180 Avanti can do 400 knots for only $1.6 million.
I've been in one. Nice bird.
bp
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On 7/16/2018 9:07 AM, Chuck McCown
wrote:
If I ever buy another plane I want it pressurized,
certified for flight in known ice and capable of doing 300
kts.
Sent: Monday, July 16, 2018 10:03 AM
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] How to reliably cool a
small enclosure in direct sunlight?
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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