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May 24th 05, 03:06 AM
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On Mon, 23 May 2005 22:26:11 GMT, Gary Emerson
wrote: Hopefully thermal expansion will not become an issue....splitting a wing open because it warmed up in the sun could ruin your day.... Your "check valve" has the potential to allow such a situation... This is very likely to happen. I once heard a report of a pilot (iirc Helmut Grix) who had plugged his water drains before he went up in a wave. The over-pressure of the air in his waterbags broke his wing shells in the thinner air - he needed completely new wings afterwards. Bye Andreas 
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