CPS for mini

[Bruce Plecan]

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From: Chris Conlon <synchris at ricochet.net>
To: diy_efi at efi332.eng.ohio-state.edu <diy_efi at efi332.eng.ohio-state.edu>
Date: Tuesday, February 09, 1999 4:25 PM
Subject: Re: CPS for mini


>This is probably just myth but I had always heard that the pilot in
>a Huey was basically sitting inside a titanium bathtub.

A-10 pilots I beleive are in the tube of TI.  Huey Cobra guys as I recall
were "Ballistic Steel".  Course Habu drivers are surrounded by it
(SR-71).....

 'Course I'm
>not sure how you'd get it down to the size and shape you'd need. Ah
>well.  What do more modern choppers have? Surely there's some kind
>of armor there, and just maybe some of it comes surplus??? :)

I worked in a machine shop late 60's and worked with some "Armor
Plate".  Incrediably tough..  Never knew the end customer, but any
errors wasted a tool, and the Boss went Ballistic over scrap.
>
>OTOH the kevlar idea sounds so easy. Will that really work? How
>much difference is there between the kevlar cloth you can easily get
>(alongside glass cloth and the like, for making composite body
>panels) and the ballistic stuff?

I'd be most inclined to use an auto tranny blanket, and just bite the
bullet on ugly.  Used to be an outfit in Canada that "poured a resin"
Over bell housings that was SCCA legal early 70's.  Mac Tilton,
of Tilton Eng in CA might know if they are still around.
Bruce
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>   Chris C.
>