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Posted: Thu Jul 04, 2013 7:14 pm Post subject: G-KITS.

Hi Richard,

Yes saw G-KITS yesterday at Wellesborne,sadly,it's kept outside,

and was showing signs of U.V.light degradation,namely the call-sign lettering was badly faded and cracked.

More worringly,another Europa there was in the same situation,but that aircraft was showing signs of Osmosis,

water blisters under the paint.

Water ingress has serious consequences for composite aircraft,

It can add serious amounts of weight,affecting C of G and therefore causing flight issues,also the water freezes in winter,or at high altitude

Causing structural problems which may 

Result in the aircraft unable to withstand flight loads.

Europas should either be kept in an enclosed trailer or in a hangar that is weather proof when they are not being

Flown,and only kept outside for short

Periods.....owners beware,your lives may depend on it.

Best Regards

Andy Cullum G-CGDH.



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Richard Lamprey

Joined: 15 Jul 2011
Posts: 95
Location: Kenya

Posted: Fri Jul 05, 2013 9:52 am Post subject: Re: G-KITS.

Thank you Andy.  My Europa lives in a nice hangar on a country airfield in Kenya for 10 months each year.  The other 2 months, it sits at the main lightplane airfield of Kenya, outside in the sun and rain (because there is no space in any hangar there), waiting for a Civil Aviation inspector to inspect it for its annual "Kenya Restricted Certificate of Airworthiness".  Eventually an inspector will come, usually facilitated to do so by a fat brown envelope.  This happens year after year.  I have a Cambrai cover for the fuselage, but nothing for wings and tailplane, so last year, at inspection time, I had a local cover-maker make covers for wings and tail.  The sun came out, it rained, more sun, and more rain.  The covers were soaked, then warmed, soaked again etc.  Finally the inspector came and went, advising me that to get the Certificate renewed, I would have to paint the words 'no push' in red paint on the ailerons. Two months later, I noticed some of the osmosis bubbles had formed on the stabilator surface, not many, but entirely due to wet covers and osmosis.  So moral of the story, try to keep it out of sun and rain for long period, but if you cant avoid this, don't put covers on the wings and tail.



Best

Richard

Kenya

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