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To: cinives

“Are you volunteering to crawl out on a wing to give the prop a spin in case of failure ?”

Wing? sheesh....you trust the WING to hold the engine? no, the engines should be mounted directly on the fuselage, that’s the only place I would trust it.

And NO I wouldn’t crawl out on a wing, they are made of aluminum and can corrode. I’m for cloth wings, they don’t corrode - and frankly I think it’s a good idea to have two sets of wings, for redundancy, just in case one fails.


47 posted on 02/27/2008 8:13:37 AM PST by RFEngineer
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To: RFEngineer
Good ideas, and don’t forget the helium tanks to fill the fuselage in case even the cloth wings fail and you want a gradual descent to earth :)
50 posted on 02/27/2008 10:24:42 AM PST by cinives (On some planets what I do is considered normal.)
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59 posted on 02/27/2008 6:23:21 PM PST by Kirkwood
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