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RV wings on a Lancair?That would be like putting a Volkswagen beetle hood on a Ferrari..

The ridicule you would receive from both the RV and Lancair drivers alone would make you wish you were dead. You could not retreat to either camp for safety as both groups would see you as a traiter of the worst sort. Why stop there though.. you could complete the hat trick and add a Glassair tail and you would have everyone pissed.

April fools day I hope...

Randy Snarr

"Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical and insignificant, if not utterly impossible"
-Simon Newcomb, 1902

--- On Fri, 4/1/11, Tim Jørgensen <tj@yacht-pool.dk> wrote:

From: Tim Jørgensen <tj@yacht-pool.dk>
Subject: [LML] True "composite" question
To: lml@lancaironline.net
Date: Friday, April 1, 2011, 8:34 AM

Hi all.

My LNC2 is near completion and I have started preparing all the paperwork necessary for the flight permit.

During my research I have stumbeled across the NTSB website and made a search on "Lancair 360". For those of you who have not done that (probably most!), this is HORRIFIC reading !!!

There seems to be quite a large number of stall related accidents, which leads me to believe that the airfoil is basically unsafe. Anyway, I am not going to fly this thing as is, although I have had my license for more than 20 years and have accumulated more than 200 hrs.

I have now come across a set of RV-7 wings that survived a hangar collapse last winter. This airfoil seems much more forgiving, anyway, that is what my A&P says, and I am trying to come up with a way to install them on my otherwise finished airframe. I will, of course, have to keep the stub wings and make them fit the slightly larger RV wing but, apart from that, would I be in for at lot work? Has anyone done this before? Any advice taken!

Regards

Tim Jorgensen

Lancair 360, was 95% done, now back to maybe 60%.....