[simpits-tech] F16 Canopy Frame

[Marv De Beque]

$18 per yard (it's 40" wide, 5.7 oz. Bidirectional weave).  Minimum order is
one yard.


On 3/14/03 12:31 AM, "mysticz28@swbell.net" <mysticz28@swbell.net> wrote:

> Marv De Beque wrote:
>> 
>> I think you have that backwards.  Kevlar requires special shears to cut it.
>> It is also flexible.
>> 
>> Carbon fiber can be cut with ordinary scissors and is very ridged.
> 
> That's what I said ;) Kevlar has somehow gotten a reputation for being
> too flexible. Don't understand that at all. It's still 4 times as stiff
> as glass by thickness and 12 times as stiff by weight (going off old
> memory there).
> 
>> Check prices at Aircraft-Spruce.  I thought carbon fiber was cheaper.
> 
> Unless they changed their prices drastically, ordering less than enough
> for an entire airframe was prohibitively expensive from AS. Fiberlay has
> always been good to me so I've stuck with them. Still have a 90 pound
> roll of both 22 oz. tooling cloth and 12 oz. mat sitting in the garage
> that I need to do something with. Almost enough to build a 'pit shell ;)