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One of the main reasons I subscribe to this site is that there are
many who are much smarter than I on the forum. Hopefully, someone has a
suggestion on an off the wall matter.
I park in a large enclosed hangar next to a Lear Jet that has
a large high powered Radar Imaging pod on the bottom of the
airplane. The company that uses the airplane flies all over the world
doing ground imaging work from 40,000 feet. I don't know much
about how the equipment works and until recently did not care. Due to
the economy, the airpane has been sitting for some time. The last 2
weeks however, the company that owns the craft has had
people working on the imaging equipment in the hangar.
Yes, this is going somewhere.. Last week I noticed I several areas
on my airplane where my white paint was turning yellow. Similar to
what you would see happen after years of exposure in the
sun. Strange thing is that the "yellowing" happend over about 4
days. During this time the high power radar imaging equipment
was being worked on. It was told it was also tested in the hangar.
My question is for anyone in the group that has an understanding of
this type of technology is could this have been the cause of my
yellowing paint? The strange part is that, only some places on the
airplane turned yellow. Right side elevator, right side
of hte canopy frame and the inner wing on the pilots side. To add to the
mystery, All of the areas that turned yellow are generally in line from
where the suspected paint yellowing radar emitter would have been. I was
told by a representative of the company that it is indeed a powerful
radar and that it could not be fully powered up in the hangar as it
would do the same thing as a microwave does to anyone in the
room.
If someone has some insight about this stuff, I would love to hear
their thoughts on the matter...
Thanks in advance...
Randy Snarr
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