Guil Barros wrote:
> -how messy/touchy is working with this? ive never done anything with
> composites or fiberglass or anything like that...
If you can properly construct an aluminum airframe, you can
easily do fiberglass. The converse is not necessarily true.
> -how does it take rain or temperature changes? the Diamond Air
> composite planes cant fly if its too hot out...or something
> like that :)
That's a by-product of the FAA certification process, and it's only the wing
spar
temperature which is limited to 131-deg F. It's a lot cheaper to
place such a limit on it rather than prove it's no issue with engineering and
test data, in the highest possible spar temp expected in service. There are
a lot of fiberglass homebuilts flying, built from plans back to the 1970's.
NTSB
accident data contains no instances yet of failure due to heat or UV
degradation,
but rather only a few scattered ones involving rather idiot build errors.
Regards,
Fred F.
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