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Old 07-21-2007 | 08:26 PM
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mesaflyer
 
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Well, at the risk of having everyone and their brother laugh at this question, I still have to ask. But before I do ask, an explanation where it's coming from. We go camping at a dry lake bed. Take the motorcycles and planes. One night, there was a very bright full moon. I mean you could see clear across the lake bed, and that was about 1 1/2 miles. So we started thinking if we put some kind of bright LED or even taped on two mini mag lites to the wing tips and maybe one under the fuselage, depending on the weight and CG, could we fly at night? Has anyone ever tried this? I by no means want to do ANYTHING UNSAFE. If we tried it, we would be away from our campsite and anyone else for that matter. And we would fly a slow flying trainer. If anyone thinks this is a really bad idea, please let me know. You wont hurt my feelings. Of course, I know that some of you are still laughing and maybe some of you think this is no laughing matter. But, my curiousity is killing me. So I just had to ask.