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To: JoeSixPack1

I have found that over the years with the sun beating down on them ,composites get brittle . Hope they have solved that.


26 posted on 07/16/2006 8:33:21 PM PDT by sgtbono2002 (The fourth estate is a fifth column.)
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"I have found that over the years with the sun beating down on them ,composites get brittle . Hope they have solved that."

Those are the older ones using polyester resin, they are all epoxy now which doesn't harden and get brittle with sunlight.

Aluminum skin and frame aircraft are going to be a thing of the past.


38 posted on 07/16/2006 8:55:26 PM PDT by dalereed
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