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March 31st 17, 02:05 PM
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Maxim Magazine soaring article
On Thursday, March 30, 2017 at 7:50:40 PM UTC-4, Bob Kuykendall wrote:
On Wednesday, March 29, 2017 at 8:54:45 PM UTC-7, Eric Greenwell wrote: The Perlan II was ... just molds at the time of Fossett's death... Ah, but they were the best molds a crap-ton of money could buy! I tried to interest Einar in a soft-tooled approach that would have cost about 1/20 of the CNC-cut, resin-infused molds that Windward eventually made, but he went with Greg's approach instead. We're currently using that soft-tool tech to make racing airplane wings, and it's working fine. --Bob K. soft tooling would have been a really good approach, given that P2 is a one-off. why did they elect to go with much more expensive mold materials? 
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