RE: Club members aluminum covering
Interesting that we're 10 years down stream from when this all began & all
the Toledo, NATs. Top Gun, Scale Masters, World Jet Meet, FAI, winners and
magazine articles... In the scale community we're pretty much a house-hold
word :^)
Flite-Metal© is .0015 inch thick self-adhesive aluminum, used to replicate
appearance of a full size aircraft finish. Flite-Metal© weighs .0022222 ounce
to the square inch. Flite-Metal© is not Mylar, polyester, poly-vinyl, poly-
propylene, or an iron-on plastic laminate. It is dead soft aluminum with a wide
elongation factor capable of up to a 25% of area mass stretch to conforn with
concave and convex curves on any airframe.
We answer application and use questions within RCU when the subject of "The
Real Thing" appears.
You can cover in litho plate and various construction grade aluminum laminates
and with specialty alloy aluminum foil. Flite-Metal© is specialty alloy foil.