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Old March 13th 05, 04:56 PM
Don Hammer
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Still have revisionary modes on the other display(s) and a set of iron
gages for backup. Heard this same silly stuff years ago when we went
from G-III to G-IV. The reality is when the juice goes away all you
are looking at on the iron gages is flags anyway and you are back to
standbys with their own power supply. What's the diff?

Gliders have been using very long and thin wings made of glass and
carbon for at least 25 years. Never heard of one having a wing
failure. In that time, how many Bonanza's and Malibu's have rained
out of the clouds? Virtually all new aircraft such as Gulfstreams'
G-550 have carbon flight controls and fairings. They've put an
arbitrary service life on them because the government says you have
to, but they don't work harden, so they haven't been able to wear them
out on a test stand. BTW - you can paint them any color you want
because they use high temp pre-pregs that are cured with heat in an
autoclave.