Why 2024?

On May 30, 7:43 am, Richard Riley wrote:
On Wed, 30 May 2007 06:33:10 GMT, cavelamb himself





wrote:
Richard Riley wrote:

On 29 May 2007 11:02:30 -0700, Bob Kuykendall
wrote:

As for another poster who says that 6061-T6 is too brittle, do you
have a cite for that very general assertion? How does that reconcile
with the fact that Zenith makes entire airplanes out of the stuff?

Of course, that didn't work out so well when they made the Cricket.

Uh, because it was designed for 6061-T6?

I'm not speaking from personal knowledge, but it's been on the CriCri
mailing list several times.

The Cri-Cri was designed for 2024-T3 for the spar fittings and a few
other places. When Zenith struck a deal to sell kits in the US they
substituted 6061 and called it the Cricket.

The results were very bad. To this day the designer refuses to sell
plans within the US. - Hide quoted text -

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The Hummelbird plans show 2024T3 for the wing spar attach
fittings, but it's not really obvious and if the builder is busy
cutting 6061 for all the other stuff he might just make them out of
it. Could be bad.

Dan