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Old June 5th 20, 05:49 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
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Default DG-303 spar issues - puchase?

I forgot to add (my personal thoughts) that while I lost much sleep each and every day learning about the later ship spar issue hard landing story as it unfolded by reading posts and looking at pictures, following the releases from DG (post bankruptcy new ownership DG), discussing things with the other owners, talking to DG dealers, traveling to Germany, looking at an "inspected/repaired" ship in person with their photos of nothing found or changed, talking to multiple dealers and repair stations, reviewing the resulting technical note, reading the test reports and doing some calculations of my own on both best and worst scenarios as a working principal engineer that has developed aircraft structures...I have never lost a night's sleep concerned about the rovings in the spars on my early ship since conducting that research.

Warning- Your ship that had higher strength ratings (manufactured over 500 aircraft over two decades by different crews in different locations at Elan and in its third decade of manned flight) is now disowned of liability by new owners of the parent company and is now noted that it could have strengths similar to comparable ships that had initially slightly lower ratings. For a reality check on all our ships and strength effects/variability encountered in production and repairs you could buy or borrow my copy of SAE's Care and Repair of Advanced Composites by Keith Armstrong or just talk to your nearest expert like Steve Hill here, maybe buy them lunch.