I would advocate nature's own microturbulator system
and cover the wings with shark skin. Looks cool and
keeps uv and moisture out as well. Not as extravagent
as it sounds as countless sharks per year are thrown
back into the sea minus a dorsal fin for the soup market
and we don't need the fins - except two for the Maughmer
winglet covers of course.

John Galloway


At 18:00 05 October 2003, John Morgan wrote:

'Kirk Stant' wrote in message
. com...
I prefer to vigorously go over the entire ship (including
the canopy)
with nice fine steel wool - gets rid of all the bugs
and mud collected
at 'low altitude', stops annoying glare (a definite
safety plus!), and
when a refinish is finally due, most of the hard work
is already done.

Wax just gets in those pesky holes - 'static ports'
I've heard them
called by local pundits - but I usually fill them
with epoxy anyway.
Anything that small can't be of much use, after all.

Kirk

Kirk,

Sounds like you're using stone age technology. Might
I suggest my method to
micro-turbulate the entire boundary layer for optimized
drag reduction and
improved laminar flow. For this it's necessary to form
omnidirectional,
sub-optical craters over the entire surface. The swirls
and ridges left
behind in the use of steel wool just doesn't get it.
So to remove bugs *and*
get a substantial reduction in L/D, sand blast the
entire ship using baking
soda as the abrasive media. This is also strongly recommended
prior to
instrument training . . . no need for 'Foggles'anymore!

Can we talk about bovine mating habits, as it relates
to gliders, now?
--
bumper - ZZ
'Dare to be different . . . circle in sink.'
to reply, the last half is right to left


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