I hope they have improved on the X frame with side rail design they had in my 73 Vette. It cost me three toes on my left foot. I now drive a Mercedes retractable hardtop with a little better safety design. Most of my planes won't fit in it but I can't afford risk any more toes on cheep designs.
John -----Original Message----- From: Steve Schneider [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 01, 2005 6:04 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [RCSE] February Car and Driver George, JB is not the only one that would know this-I also have 2002 Vette, and all the '97--'04 Vettes have balsa wood floor pans. They use fiberglass sandwich istead of the CF. The best part of the '97--'02 is that I can get 3-5 sailplanes in the back of my coupe, alomg with a winch, battery, turnaround and everything else I need for a day of flying. With a little help from the Chicago crew to bring my easy-up, I,ve had enough in there for a week at the NATS, and hope to do it again this year. On 5/1/05, George Voss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > While at the gym this week, I was reading about all of the new 500 hp cars > coming out of Detroit. The car in question, the 2006 Z06 Corvette > (http://autos.msn.com/research/vip/futuremodel.aspx?familyid=879&pictureid=0 > &usage=image&src=vip) has a small block 427 spitting out 500 hp and 475 lbs > of torque. The interesting item that affects us modelers is the floor pan. > To keep the car as light as possible, there are copious amounts of carbon in > the car, but the floor pan uses a balsa core with CF skins. > > Since my household income isn't currently 6 figures a year, there is little > chance of me ever owning one of these cars. But, the maintenance on this > car would be a killer! There are 6 individual brake pads for each rotor, > lots of CF in the body and more high tech stuff than I'm used to in a car. > One disappointment is the use of a steel muffler instead of the titanium the > current high-end Vette has. Oh well. > > So now it's not only boats that use up our precious amounts of balsa, but > cars too. I'm sure JB already knew this though. :) gv > > RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format > -- Steve Schneider Buffalo Grove, IL SOAR Club RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format
