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![]() Most of us have seen the color versus heat chart and are going white, but what about
deepskyblue deepskyblue2 deepskyblue3 gold gold2 gold3 gold4 goldenrod goldenrod1 goldenrod2 goldenrod3 and the many many other lighter colors. Also - seems as the wings are more sensitive than the fuse, darker colors there? and course on the underside
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Enjoy the build,njut av byggandet, godere il costruire, nyd bygningen, geniesse den Bau, apolafse tin kataskevi, disfrute la construcción, curta a construção, Pidä hauskaa rakentamisen parissa, bouw lekker,uživaj grade?inaslajdaites postroikoi, geniet die bou dust maker of wood, fiberglass, foam dust, metal bits and one day a Cozy will pop out and swiftly whisk me from meeting old friends and family to adventures throughout the world |
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![]() Well - eracer has already shown that the wing foam leading edge can withstand summer temps and sunshine in the indiana or was it Illinois climate. my current plan is to paint, glassed, filled and sanded wing foam and test it myself on a visit to scottsdale AZ in the heat/sunshine.
my current picks are deepskyblue deepskyblue2 deepskyblue3 time and experimentation will tell hoping for a 188 F day when i do it
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Enjoy the build,njut av byggandet, godere il costruire, nyd bygningen, geniesse den Bau, apolafse tin kataskevi, disfrute la construcción, curta a construção, Pidä hauskaa rakentamisen parissa, bouw lekker,uživaj grade?inaslajdaites postroikoi, geniet die bou dust maker of wood, fiberglass, foam dust, metal bits and one day a Cozy will pop out and swiftly whisk me from meeting old friends and family to adventures throughout the world |
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![]() That 'blue' would be a great looking plane, Dust.
![]() Picture below is of a light yellow which is less temperature transmission but not quite as nice as the Corvette yellow wing and fuse striped Longeze owned by Tim Sullivan.. Thats a VERY nice color the way he did it [not whole plane] but he did do the strakes and wings- I'll have to see if I can find it on another older laptop Ive got. Other pic is MY ABSOLUTE FAVORITE SCHEME that I will do on MY plane in honor of its owner. This is John Denvers longeze he crashed in here in Monterey, taken here in Calif just before it happened. Ive got Gary Hunterz podz in the garage and my plane will look just as close as is possible to John's. Somebody got his triple nickle N number already or I would've had that as well.
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![]() This is my proposed paint scheem. The Grays may be a little lighter that those shown in the photo. I plan on performing several temperature color test to ensure I don't go over 150Deg F on the wings or canard.
Look at May 15 at; http://www.iflyez.com/LongEZ_Retrofit_MAY_05.shtml Waiter
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![]() Very snarky-Very cool..... put some bigg honkin disco ball strobes on it so you dont get pluto'd out of the sky by somebody who dont see you.
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![]() don't thick the color will make much difference for being seen by others. there is nothing harder to see or find in the air then a eze no matter what the color. between the light colors and the small area they are very hard to see. put and eze in formation with a white RV and you will see the RV and not notice the eze until they are allmost on top of you.
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![]() Install wig-wag flashers and use them on final. They'll treat you like an inbound jet until they realize otherwise... or so the theory goes.
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![]() When I talked to the wig wag guy, he told me that a wig wag needed two filaments to work. Either you wig wag two lights, or you wig wag a single light that has a high and low beam filament in it. He said you couldn't wig-wag one light with a single filament. True?
The Cozy III that I fly has two aircraft lights -- one in the end of the port strake and the other in the end of the starboard strake. They wig wag back and forth. Others see the lights before they see the plane.
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![]() Quote:
Google search on "headlight modulator", used a lot in the M/C community. You can wig-wag a single filament. They flash medium bright to full bright. http://www.kisantech.com/index.php?cat_id=2 is one. Rick |
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![]() mmmm - maybe you are using gloss and the test was using flat!
I know t does not make sense, but could be a reason
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Enjoy the build,njut av byggandet, godere il costruire, nyd bygningen, geniesse den Bau, apolafse tin kataskevi, disfrute la construcción, curta a construção, Pidä hauskaa rakentamisen parissa, bouw lekker,uživaj grade?inaslajdaites postroikoi, geniet die bou dust maker of wood, fiberglass, foam dust, metal bits and one day a Cozy will pop out and swiftly whisk me from meeting old friends and family to adventures throughout the world |
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![]() Quote:
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Daniel Dillon Cozy Mark IV #1353 builder (weekends); Semiconductor Field Applications Enginer (weekdays). Current status as of April '07: *Chapter 4, 5 - completed *Chapter 6 - in progres, fuselage assembled without a bottom, step 1 completed. Continuing to make progress every weekend. |
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![]() I've often suspected that this chart was reading high, but I've never followed up on it.
There were many occasions when I would leave my plane parked on the ramp in Fresno, Calif. in direct sun light, with an outside air temperature of 120 DegF. According to the chart, my plane should have been a pile of melted plastic (white @ 120 = 175 deg) Although I know better, I swear I could put my hand on the plane and it was cooler than the OAT of 120 ![]() Spectral (glossy) or diffused (flat) reflections makes very little difference. The Sun hitting the surface at a direct angle would have the most impact, but I don't think even this would account for the discrepancy. I've performed several preliminary color /temperature tests on my proposed colors and am confident that even if I park in Fresno in the future, I should still be able to put my hand on and surface without burning it. Waiter
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![]() Sounds like an opportunity for someone to build a sample coupon with a bunch of embedded sensors and paint colors.
I would guess that the surface temp might be lower than the temps under the surface, which is more critical. I don't know what the thermal properties of a finished composite are, but I do know that my house is insulated with both foamed plastic and glass fibers. So it seems to me that convection of heat to the air at the surface would be the only way to lose heat. The bottom of the layer of paint at the surface might be hotter? |
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