[Milsurplus] [ARC5] ARB Canvas Cover
Francesco Ledda
frledda at att.net
Sat Mar 2 19:36:54 EST 2013
And removes the paint ;)
Sent from my iPhone
On Mar 2, 2013, at 18:07, "Michael A. Bittner" <mmab at cox.net> wrote:
> But flying in heavy rain cleans the bugs off the leading edges of stuff.
> Mike
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> From: B Smith
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> Sent: Saturday, March 02, 2013 2:16 PM
> Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] [ARC5] ARB Canvas Cover
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>
> Ah the pleasures of flying an unpressurized aircraft . . .
> Any unpressurized aircraft leaks and leaks quite a bit. Its a distraction
> flying in heavy rain
> on final approach and having water constantly dripping and bouncing off of
> your head. :-)
> Leaks in the avionics bays were always a problem.
>
> One advanatage of pressurization is that it keeps the water out. But then
> you have the "howling"
> air leaks, often we used wet paper towels to plug the holes and then they
> would freeze in place plugging the
> leak, The C-5A main entrance door often took a whole pack of towels to plug
> the leaks.
>
> breck
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