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Old July 12th 05, 01:33 PM
Marian Aldenhövel
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Default How much glass in a glider?

Hi,

We talk "glass ship" or "Plastikbomber" and variations to that theme
when talking of composite gliders. While riding my bike home from the
airport yesterday I started to wonder how much of GRP is actually
"glass" and how much "plastic". Or more generally:

What goes into a modern glider in terms of raw material and labour?

http://www.dg-flugzeugbau.de/flugzeug-bauen-d.html

English version at

http://www.dg-flugzeugbau.de/flugzeug-bauen-e.html)

Gives figures of 46 square meters of carbon fabric and 11.5kgs of
Epoxy for a wing and 240h of work for the finish.

More data points?

Ciao, MM
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provided you start with a big one"
 




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