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I have said it before and will say it again. A friend of mine had an Ercoupe and his had metal wings and his empty weight was approximately 40 pounds heavier than mine, which has fabric wings. They all have paint and it depends on which kind and how much you use will determine how much of a weight increase. I was told once that a paint job on a B-52 added about 900 pounds.. Jim N87349 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Hartmut" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Jim Phelps" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Coupe-List" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 12:29 PM Subject: Re: [COUPERS-FLYIN] RE: [COUPERS-TECH] fabric wings > ----[Please read http://ercoupers.com/disclaimer.htm before following any advice in this forum.]---- > > > Ed , all. > > After our last long discussion about metalized versus fabric wings, we > came to the conclusion that the metal material to cover both wings > weights roughly 40 pounds. > > Now, if you would then still cover these wings with fabric and paint > them, you would have added a true 40 pound to the empty weight of the aircraft. > > But since we remove the remove the dope soaked fabric we have to > subtract the weight of the removed material to do a fair comparison. > > Nobody could tell us so far what the weight of the fabric (painted) > actually is. > > I estimate it at least 10 pounds each side, leaving 20 pounds or even > more off the calculation. > > With that in mind, metal wings do not look too bad I think. > > Hartmut > > ========================================================================== == == > To leave this forum go to: http://ercoupers.com/lists.htm > > > > ========================================================================== ==== To leave this forum go to: http://ercoupers.com/lists.htm
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