My wings were professionally .016" aluminum covered and the total weight increase (both wings) is 21 pounds. That seems right to me. .016" just doesn't weigh much. John
--- On Sat, 3/13/10, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: From: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [ercoupe-tech] wing weight To: [email protected], [email protected] Date: Saturday, March 13, 2010, 3:48 PM Hey Ed: The weight difference between these two pair of wings was 40 pounds. 20 pounds per wing. Lynn In a message dated 3/13/2010 10:16:44 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, e...@edburkhead. com writes: James Brennan called me on my interpretation of Lynn’s sentence. I over-eagerly read it the way I thought it should be. (Thank you, Jim.) Lynn wrote: > Hey Ed: I was the one who weighed a fabric covered wing and > a metal covered wing. I had a pair of metal covered wings in > the hangar as well as a freshly covered set of fabric wings. As > you reported, the difference was 20 pounds between them. Lynn, would you please clarify, is the weight difference 20 pounds per pair of wings or 20 pounds per wing? Ed
