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Well , maybe the Ceconite the acrylic paint are not heavy - they still weight. As for the corrosion : If you think the inspection holes on the bottom of the wing s not good enough then I can not understand why we also not peel off that bottom skin and replace that every 20 years of so with ceconite. I bet there will be reports that it will fly better also. I am not convinced. There is nobody having real data. I can see how a cloth wing flies different , but that is probably one's preference. Hartmut Greg Bullough wrote: > > ----[Please read http://ercoupers.com/disclaimer.htm before following any advice in this forum.]---- > > At 11:35 AM 5/31/02 -0700, Hartmut wrote: > >----[Please read http://ercoupers.com/disclaimer.htm before following any > >advice in this forum.]---- > > > > > >Hey folks. > >" Fabric also weighs many pounds less (I've heard the number 40 > > > lb. but can't confirm it.)" > >I wonder how this myth came up and why it will stay forever. > >When aluminizing the wings one fills the wing with 3 sheets of 0.024 aluminum. > >That is aluminum !! Not 1 inch thick steel !! The leading edge is > >already aluminized , so are the ailerons. The actual area to be filled > >is not soo much that I seriosly doubt a weight increase of 40 pounds. > > Well, the rivets weigh a bit. > > And fabric and dope and even acrylic paint over is amazingly light. I think > someone weighed a pile of removed fabric from their plane, and it was > something like 12 pounds, paint and all. > > Metalization made a lot of sense when only Grade-A cotton was available > as a covering. > > And when it was figured the plane would be scrap in 15 years anyway. > > It does not make sense in the age of Ceconite and such. > > And an Ercoupe where the wing structure hasn't been seen in a quarter- > century scares me. > > I have to say that the rag-wings have a handling je-ne-sais-quoi that I > also appreciate. I'm not the only one. > > Greg > > ================================================================== > TO UNSUBSCRIBE go to: http://ercoupers.com/lists.htm ================================================================== TO UNSUBSCRIBE go to: http://ercoupers.com/lists.htm
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