[Aus-soaring] Future planes may be made of `buckypaper'

Found this interesting, maybe the next generation of gliders "Buckypaper" may eventually see use in aircraft, cars. The AP (10/19, Kaczor) reported on "buckypaper," which "is 10 times lighter

Re: [Aus-soaring] Future planes may be made of `buckypaper'

lf Of Robinson, Peter B (Information Systems) Sent: Tuesday, 21 October 2008 8:53 AM To: Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia. Subject: [Aus-soaring] Future planes may be made of `buckypaper' Found this interesting, maybe the next generation of gliders "Buckypaper&

Re: [Aus-soaring] Future planes may be made of `buckypaper'

At 03:14 PM 21/10/2008, you wrote: Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="=_NextPart_000_0025_01C93398.28AA6130" Content-Language: en-au Yes, but you wouldn't be wanting to work in a manufacturing or repair workshop http://www.i-sis

Re: [Aus-soaring] Future planes may be made of `buckypaper'

At 07:53 AM 21/10/2008, you wrote: Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="_=_NextPart_001_01C932FE.47433557" Found this interesting, maybe the next generation of gliders At least the things might be lighter to rig but where will

Re: [Aus-soaring] Future planes may be made of `buckypaper'

On 21/10/2008, at 5:18 PM, Mike Borgelt wrote: At least the things might be lighter to rig but where will the water go? The limit on glider performance is the airfoil performance at low Reynolds numbers. This places a lower limit on the wing chord and we are there already and there is som

Re: [Aus-soaring] Future planes may be made of `buckypaper'

high wing, struts, I have a mental picture of a horse drawn zepplin. JR - Original Message - From: "Mark Newton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia." Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 5:15 PM Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring]