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Old December 19th 03, 09:47 PM
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In article FLJEb.604866$Fm2.547625@attbi_s04, Jay Honeck
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I had 3/4 inch (!) and 1 inch (!!) aluminum poles on that tent, a rain fly,
and the whole thing was staked down with 10 (!!!) stakes.
Didn't matter a bit -- the wind pulled those stakes out of the "soil"
(basically gravel under an inch of topsoil), and bent the poles over the
backside of my right aileron. Incredibly, the poles bent -- while the
aileron did not.


OOPS!!! I forgot about the aluminum to aluminum transfer on Atlas' wing.