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> -----Original Message----- > From: Vern_Hendershott > Sent: Monday, October 10, 2005 7:39 AM > To: Ed Burkhead > Cc: Cflyin > Subject: Re: [COUPERS-FLYIN] PIREP: Aerostar Festival > > Hi Ed, > > The Festival is an interesting aircraft but it is constructed with > thousands of pop rivets and I would not want to bet on how long it will > hold up in student service, the canopy is nothing to write home about > either the latches do not work well. > > Regards, > Vern Vern, Andy said in the article that they're planning to replace many of those rivets with flush rivets. Pop rivets, huh? The Challenger I'm building is all done with pop rivets and they seem to stay tight for a long time. There are plenty of 15 year old Challengers. But how many of any kind of aircraft hold up as well as a Coupe for 60 years? Ed Burkhead http://edburkhead.com ed -at- edburkhead???.com (change -at- to @ and remove "???") ============================================================================== To leave this forum go to: http://ercoupers.com/lists.htm Search the archives on http://escribe.com/aviation/coupers/
