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From: doug@terak.UUCP (Doug Pardee)
Newsgroups: net.aviation
Subject: Re: Aircraft wear and tear.
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Date: Fri, 15-Nov-85 11:37:30 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov 15 11:37:30 1985
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> if you buy a light plane, stick with wooden spars.

That is, IF you can easily inspect the spars.  Planes like the
wood-wing Mooney (and to a lesser extent the Bellanca 14 and 17
series) are a maintenance disaster.

Of course, you can always find someone to illegally sign the plane
off without actually having done the inspection, and take your
chances that your wing spars haven't rotted.

Somebody once said that owning a wood-wing Mooney or a Beech 18 was
"like marrying the FAA".
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Doug Pardee -- CalComp -- {hardy,savax,seismo,decvax,ihnp4}!terak!doug