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Old May 28th 08, 06:43 AM posted to rec.aviation.homebuilt
Steve Hix
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Default Old video of Burt Rutan and Mike Melvill demoing composite strength.

In article ,
cavelamb himself wrote:

Jim Logajan wrote:
While searching for videos demonstrating composite construction on Youtube,
I came across this rather dated video of Burt Rutan and Mike Melvill
demonstrating the advantages of composites over aluminum:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eUt0YnNF3o


Very interesting.
But no information given about the weight differences.


You mean other than stating multiple times that the two parts shown were
exactly the same weight?