<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Its all about compression modulus, not strength. This is a common mistake.<br>
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<td><font size=1 face="sans-serif"><b>"Dean Pappas" <d.pappas@kodeos.com></b></font>
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<br><font size=2 color=blue face="Arial">Hey Eric,</font>
<br><font size=2 color=blue face="Arial">Some years back (my guess is that this happened in '93) Steve Stricker laid up the fuselage on one of his first Excalibur IIs extra light to save weight, and added no formers, in the tail. This was a simple glass layup: no laminates. The first snap with the plane, the tail-cone twisted and folded over. Steve let go of everything, and the plane "popped" back straight. The rudder cables and the elevator pushrod survived, and the plane landed with rips in the the two bottom "corners" of the fuse, just aft of the wing. Very little reenforcement solved the problem.</font>
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<br><font size=2 color=blue face="Arial">Dean</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="Tahoma">-----Original Message-----<b><br>
From:</b> Henderson,Eric [mailto:Eric.Henderson@gartner.com]<b><br>
Sent:</b> Wednesday, March 17, 2004 9:34 AM<b><br>
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<br><font size=2 color=blue face="Arial">BTW this is not an IMAC-attack. It was just so interesting to see a stab and fin stay still while the rest rotated itself off. I have always thought that the back-end took most of the stress. This showed how much.</font>
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<br><font size=2 color=blue face="Arial">Murphy's law certainly kicked in this time.</font>
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<br><font size=2 color=blue face="Arial">Eric.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="Tahoma">-----Original Message-----<b><br>
From:</b> discussion-request@nsrca.org [mailto:discussion-request@nsrca.org]<b>On Behalf Of </b>Tony Quist<b><br>
Sent:</b> Wednesday, March 17, 2004 1:14 AM<b><br>
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<br><font size=2 color=#000080 face="Arial">That plane was Mike McConvilles 2000 TOC plane. The new owner admitted after the crash that the plane broke loose in the trailer and sustained some damage. </font>
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<br><font size=2 face="Tahoma">-----Original Message-----<b><br>
From:</b> discussion-request@nsrca.org [mailto:discussion-request@nsrca.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Lance Van Nostrand<b><br>
Sent:</b> Tuesday, March 16, 2004 9:12 PM<b><br>
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<br><font size=2 face="Arial">Eric,</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Arial">Amazing video! Was that a FiberClassics rohacel laminate plane? Why did it fail?</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="Arial">----- Original Message ----- </font>
<br><font size=2 face="Arial"><b>From:</b> </font><a href=mailto:Eric.Henderson@gartner.com><font size=2 color=blue face="Arial"><u>Henderson,Eric</u></font></a><font size=2 face="Arial"> </font>
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<br><font size=2 face="Arial"><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, March 16, 2004 8:15 PM</font>
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<br><font size=2 color=blue face="Arial"> </font><a href="http://www.cox-internet.com/33bd4u/images/IMAC_crash.wmv"><font size=2 color=blue face="Arial"><u>Click here: http://www.cox-internet.com/33bd4u/images/IMAC_crash.wmv</u></font></a><font size=2 face="Arial"> </font>
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<br><font size=2 color=blue face="Arial"> Why didn't everyone run....?</font>
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