Stretched acrylic is obtained by stretching as-cast acrylic sheets, a process which reorientates the long polymer chains. This drastically increases the material properties.
Stretched acrylic has an improved craze resistance as well as a far better stress, crack propagation and solvent resistance than as-cast acrylic. It is therefore suitable for birdproof windshields, canopies, outer cabin window panes and other transparencies for pressurized aircraft.
Thick strectched acrylic windscreens, small openings, big flanges, no fasteners, flush masks (no seams).
Thread: The evolution of the 38 DW Fury
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01-20-2010 11:05 AM
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01-21-2010 03:25 AM
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01-22-2010 05:36 PM
Great thread. thanks and keep us informed
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01-22-2010 07:38 PM
Skater's race windows are all polycarbonate.
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01-22-2010 08:47 PM
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01-25-2010 02:40 PM
Very cool Sean. Thanks for sharing the evolution of the Fury 38' DW with us.
YOU JUST CAN'T MAKE THIS SH*T UP!!!!!!
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01-29-2010 06:56 PMThe "crash" bulkheads go in next, the new cockpit liner is structural, so we will have a cockpit within a cockpit. There will be NO penetrations (or hatch access) through these bulkheads.
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01-29-2010 07:00 PMWhen the canopy is laid up an integral carbon roll cage (like this one) will be built in.
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01-29-2010 07:06 PMDo we go a step further and add two moly roll cages?
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01-29-2010 07:39 PM
COPELAND'S, I think???
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01-29-2010 07:40 PM
Guy your layout looks great....BULLET PROOF!
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01-29-2010 08:01 PMheatwave, you guys ever think of foam filling the voids created by the "deflector-bulkheads" ?
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01-31-2010 02:56 PM
How far aft was the canopy moved?
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02-02-2010 02:24 PM
Are you making the changes to the bottom?
Do you have a weight and CG estimate Sean?
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02-02-2010 02:33 PM
The bottom is staying the same, the canopy is coming back about 30 inches (also going from 4 person to 2 person). The CG should stay around 105 but with a more focused weight around that CG with the elimination of the ext. boxes and moving the engines forward (they were moved rearward to test this CG placement).