life expectancy (was RE: [RCSE] aluminium bonding)

2002-08-01 Thread Lincoln Ross
Two, and probably three, of the planes I've used this year are over 10 years old. J wrote: On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, Bill Johns wrote: Our planes don't have life expectancies of 20+ years and these reactions do take a while to happen. 20 years? I'm lucky if I get 20 days! -J -- Lincoln Ross

Re: life expectancy (was RE: [RCSE] aluminium bonding)

2002-08-01 Thread Monkey King
On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, Lincoln Ross wrote: Two, and probably three, of the planes I've used this year are over 10 years old. When that little voice in your head says Yyehhh, I guess you've got enough altitude for that... you decide No, I don't, whereas I say Well, I'll try it. What's the

Re: life expectancy (was RE: [RCSE] aluminium bonding)

2002-08-01 Thread Lincoln Ross
Not true. Ask anyone around here how far I go downwind. One of the planes was flown out of a very tall tree (I had to push it out of the tree backwards, Fritz Bien performed the lomcevak and recovery) just a few weeks ago, and last year it landed maybe 1/2 mile downwind. I calibrated my range