: Hey Bill, you just gave me a great idea- build a flying kayak! You
: could do an ultralight delta wing that detatches. Fly in to some
: remote mountain lake, paddle, fly home. LOL!!! Call it the
: "Flyak!" Okay, that was really very much kidding,
: although there is a company making a flying RIB, and it's
: basically just a regular "rubber ducky" ridgid
: inflatable with a delta wing on it.
: Anyway- on a more serious note- with your epoxy skin method it
: seems the skin would be brittle and have a tendency to tear.
: What am I missing? Maybe because I'm thinking in terms of
: fiberglass cloth and not dacron or nylon?
Hi Malcolm,
First, most people think of fiberglass like a production fiberglass boat, a hard rigid material and in those thicknesses it is. But it's composed of very flexible layers that individually are very flexible. The Dacron you can think of as a poor man's Kevlar, the combination of the Dacron,fiberglass (single ply) and epoxy makes for a very tough and quite flexible material.
You'd have to try it to see :)
Bill H.
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- Skin-on-Frame: Skin/Coating Ranking - aka - "Skin Score"
Justin -- 3/28/2011, 1:43 pm- Re: Skin-on-Frame: Skin/Coating Ranking - aka - "S
Mike Bielski -- 3/28/2011, 3:45 pm- Re: Skin-on-Frame: Skin/Coating Ranking - aka - "S
Justin -- 3/28/2011, 6:31 pm- Re: Skin-on-Frame: Skin/Coating Ranking - aka - "S
Mike Bielski -- 3/28/2011, 10:27 pm- Re: Skin-on-Frame: Skin/Coating Ranking - aka - "S
Justin -- 3/29/2011, 7:57 am- Re: Skin-on-Frame: Skin/Coating Ranking - aka - "S
Bill Hamm -- 3/30/2011, 12:53 am
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- Skin/Coating Ranking
Paul G. Jacobson -- 3/28/2011, 7:12 pm- Re: Skin/Coating Ranking
Justin -- 3/29/2011, 8:08 am
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Kudzu / Jeff Horton -- 3/28/2011, 10:54 pm- Re: Skin-on-Frame: Skin/Coating Ranking - aka - "S
Justin -- 3/29/2011, 8:03 am- Re: Skin-on-Frame: Skin/Coating Ranking - aka - "S
Kudzu -- 3/29/2011, 8:37 am- Re: Skin-on-Frame: Skin/Coating Ranking - aka - "S
Justin -- 3/29/2011, 9:30 am- Re: Skin-on-Frame: Skin/Coating Ranking - aka - "S
Kudzu -- 3/29/2011, 10:31 am- Re: Skin-on-Frame: Skin/Coating Ranking - aka - "S
Bill Hamm -- 3/30/2011, 1:03 am - Re: Skin-on-Frame: Skin/Coating Ranking - aka - "S
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Scott Shurlow -- 3/29/2011, 10:35 am- Re: Skin-on-Frame: Skin/Coating Ranking - aka - "S
Bill Hamm -- 3/30/2011, 12:57 am - Re: Skin-on-Frame: Skin/Coating Ranking - aka - "S
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Bill Hamm -- 3/29/2011, 1:43 am- Re: Skin-on-Frame: Skin/Coating Ranking - aka - "S
Justin -- 3/29/2011, 7:44 am- Re: Skin-on-Frame: Skin/Coating Ranking - aka - "S
Bill Hamm -- 3/29/2011, 1:11 pm- Re: Skin-on-Frame: Skin/Coating Ranking - aka - "S
Justin -- 3/29/2011, 3:21 pm- Re: Skin-on-Frame: Skin/Coating Ranking - aka - "S
Bill Hamm -- 3/30/2011, 1:37 am- Re: Skin-on-Frame: Skin/Coating Ranking - aka - "S
Justin -- 3/30/2011, 8:31 am- Re: Skin-on-Frame: Skin/Coating Ranking - aka - "S
Bill Hamm -- 3/31/2011, 1:02 am- Re: Skin-on-Frame: Skin/Coating Ranking - aka - "S
Bill Hamm -- 3/31/2011, 1:42 am- Re: Skin-on-Frame: Skin/Coating Ranking - aka - "S
Justin -- 3/31/2011, 8:41 am- Re: Skin-on-Frame: Skin/Coating Ranking - aka - "S
Bill Hamm -- 3/31/2011, 8:47 am- Re: Skin-on-Frame: Skin/Coating Ranking - aka - "S
Justin -- 3/31/2011, 8:51 am
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- Re: Skin-on-Frame: Skin/Coating Ranking - aka - "S
Malcolm Schweizer -- 4/1/2011, 9:19 am- Re: Skin-on-Frame: Skin/Coating Ranking - aka - "S
Bill Hamm -- 4/1/2011, 11:33 am- flying boats *PIC*
Paul G. Jacobson -- 4/2/2011, 2:54 am- Re: flying boats
Bill Hamm -- 4/2/2011, 6:56 am- Re: flying boats
Malcolm Schweizer -- 4/4/2011, 9:01 am- Re: flying boats
Bill Hamm -- 4/4/2011, 4:21 pm- Re: flying boats
Bill Hamm -- 4/4/2011, 4:26 pm - Re: flying boats
- Re: flying boats
- flying boats *PIC*
- Re: Skin-on-Frame: Skin/Coating Ranking - aka - "S
- Re: Skin-on-Frame: Skin/Coating Ranking - aka - "S
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StephenHJ -- 3/30/2011, 1:33 pm- Re: Skin-on-Frame: Skin/Coating Ranking - aka - "S
Justin -- 3/30/2011, 2:29 pm
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Mike Bielski -- 3/29/2011, 1:03 pm- Re: Skin-on-Frame: Skin/Coating Ranking - aka - "S
Justin -- 3/29/2011, 3:38 pm- Re: Skin-on-Frame: Skin/Coating Ranking - aka - "S
Noel Bennett -- 3/29/2011, 6:01 pm- Re: Skin-on-Frame: Skin/Coating Ranking - aka - "S
StephenHJ -- 3/29/2011, 6:08 pm- Re: Skin-on-Frame: Skin/Coating Ranking - aka - "S
Noel Bennett -- 3/29/2011, 7:02 pm- Re: Skin-on-Frame: Skin/Coating Ranking - aka - "S
Bill Hamm -- 3/30/2011, 1:41 am- Re: Skin-on-Frame: Skin/Coating Ranking - aka - "S
Justin -- 3/30/2011, 8:39 am- Re: Skin-on-Frame: Skin/Coating Ranking - aka - "S
Bill Hamm -- 3/31/2011, 1:05 am- Re: Skin-on-Frame: Skin/Coating Ranking - aka - "S
Justin -- 3/31/2011, 8:21 am- Re: Skin-on-Frame: Skin/Coating Ranking - aka - "S
Bill Hamm -- 3/31/2011, 8:50 am
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- It's called
Kudzu -- 3/29/2011, 6:13 pm- Re: It's called
Kudzu -- 3/29/2011, 6:16 pm- Re: It's called
Bill Hamm -- 3/30/2011, 1:42 am
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Justin -- 3/30/2011, 8:48 am- Re: It's called
Kudzu / Jeff Horton -- 3/30/2011, 1:40 pm- Re: It's called
Justin -- 3/30/2011, 2:51 pm- Re: It's called
Noel Bennett -- 3/30/2011, 3:50 pm- 12 oz? *PIC*
Kudzu/Jeff Horton -- 3/30/2011, 4:18 pm
- 12 oz? *PIC*
- Re: It's called
- Re: It's called
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Michael -- 3/30/2011, 1:44 pm- Re: It's called
Kudzu/Jeff Horton -- 3/30/2011, 4:02 pm
- Re: It's called
- Re: Skin-on-Frame: Skin/Coating Ranking - aka - "S
- Re: Skin-on-Frame: Skin/Coating Ranking - aka - "S
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