At least, I KNOW every damned rivet and I KNEW that it
wouldn't fall apart at altitude. Do you have the same
confidence that the composite "glue" will do the same??

How cold is it at altitude? What happens when you get a
lightening strike on that fuselage? With the resistance of
the composite fuselage you'll get a tremendous voltage drop
across it when the lightening strikes. And Power equals
voltage drop times current. How do you think you'll like
dissipating a megawatthour of energy in that small area??

I'll stick to metal airplanes... Lightening hits them and
simply flows through with little or no voltage drop...

John


I was in a good mood until I read this. Now I'm suicidal!

All bull**** aside John, you bring up some great concerns as usual. I
have no idea how it will behave under those conditions. I might just
"POP" into another dimension or something. I may hurdle to my death.
All I can say is "What the ****...over!" I've probably lived too long
already...almost like a cat with 9 lives...I've been sooo close, sooo
many times!

I want to tell you all something. If I buy the farm in a Lancair
Legacy that I built, then I want all of you to rejoice at my life and
know that I lived it to the fullest as I came to a screaming halt into
the Earth at Mach 0.7 due to a structural failure. I want you to
post this post if I punch in doing what I love to do...going fast,
taking chances, flying and living life.

I don't have a death wish. But, on the other hand, I have no
intention of hiding my head under my bed when there are 300 mph
airplanes to be built and flown...and finally after 50 years of being
a poor Black Jewish Christian Hebrew ******* child from Boulder City,
I personally have the means to produce such a machine for my own
personal (and Boom Boom's) use.

Best Wishes to all,

BWB

P.S. I will make sure that I put compete EFIS in it so I can roll it
continuously without tumbling any gyroscopes. I just pulled a gyro
today that I trashed from looping the machine I fly.

No more! Not with the Legacy. It will be all EFIS.