George Patterson wrote:
: Anyway. If you get a fabric aircraft that has a Ceconite or Polyfiber skin with
: polyurethane applied over a dope base coat, you shouldn't have problems with
: the fabric.

: Corrosion is a different issue, but metal aircraft also have problems with this.

Just out of curiosity, if one were to learn the art of recovering so as to do
it oneself, what would a reasonable expense be to recover a bird like that? It seems
that so long as you know how to work on it, fabric planes aren't a big deal. In a lot
of ways, they're better than metal, since you can reasonable take the lid off and look
inside for corrosion.

-Cory

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* Cory Papenfuss *
* Electrical Engineering candidate Ph.D. graduate student *
* Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University *
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