Dick, my mechanic owns a Forney and planned to replace the metal skins with fabric, but the FSDO Fed told him that would not be possible. When Forney produced the metal wings they changed the ribs from ERCO's flanged flange (this is hard to describe--the flange is horizontal at the top and bottom of the rib, but has a vertical flange extending down from the horizontal part) to a single flange (no vertical part.) This weakened the rib, but the metal skin would compensate for that. A fabric skin would not. He said we could replace the metal with fabric only if we replaced the Forney ribs with ERCO ribs.
Syd Cohen NC94196 Wausau, WI Dick Chevalier wrote: > Thanks Warren and I appreciate your sentiments. Personally, I like the > combination of rag wings and 90hp, fly's great. My problem is getting > through my first annual. Not much point in carrying insurance if I can't > get signed off. (Insurance company's get the faschist's in DC to pass > excuses for them not to pay, but I digress...) Has anyone ever LEGALLY > taken the metal off a set of metal wings and rag'd them? That would be a > 337 I could use! > Dick > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wednesday, December 15, 1999 11:11 PM > Subject: Re: Rag Wings > > > Well, my friend this is a good point. It brings up all of our sins of the > >past...
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