Re: Re: Does anyone still use microfilm?

From: Don Slusarczyk <don_at_slusarczyk.com>
Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2013 19:47:14 -0500

That was a first for me in 30+ years of indoor flying. I have never used
a non adjustable cautery before. Life is full of firsts. I can say I one
first I have never had was loosing a record flight because my model was
over the legal wingspan limit and only having one timer. Do I recall
that correctly Leo? :-)

Don
>
> Don,
>
> MIcrofilm may be very light and tough enough but none of us has yet
> lost a model to a cauterizing iron cause film fire on a plane covered
> with OS Film. I seem to recall seeing, out of the corner of my eye, a
> microfilm covered plane burst into flames during this past year's US
> Nats. Do I recall this correctly, Don? I was probably picking boron
> out of my skin at the time so my attention was on other matters than
> the burst of flame further down the flight line.
>
> LP
>
> __._,
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