[simpits-tech] OT again - but wow :-)

[Roy Coates]

On Fri, 19 Jan 2007, Simon Bennett wrote:

> Nowadays you don't brand an airplane. Traditionally ownership is denoted by
> registration numbers and such, which are usually painted on; a red-hot brand
> will just damage the paint and might cause sheet metal damage (you can bet
> the maintenance personnel would shit a brick if you tried).
>
> They did experiment with such things, back in the barnstorming days when
> airplane rustling was a more serious problem than it is in modern times, but
> back  then the fragile wood-and-fabric flying machines tended to burst into
> flames more often than not, and the procedure was quickly abandoned.


Go on... naughty corner ------------------------------->



> P.S. Roy, which one are you working on? Is it G-ANCF?


Yessum


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Roy Coates.
Dept of Engineering.
Liverpool University.
E-Mail: r.coates at liv.ac.uk
Tel: 0151 794 4862
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