Silk, Silkspan ...

The Kavilier is an all built up plane, even the stab. The fin and control surfaces are solid though. With the type of flying I was doing at the time (your basic carrying on:) we would sometimes end up in the ruff, which is the reason I used silk on the tail feathers. I primarily use SIG Koverall now, just love the stuff. When I first started to fly, I had a club member that lived near me who taught me how to cover and showed me many building and painting tips. He just passed away a few years ago, but man, could he build a nice fabric covered aircraft. When he was done they often looked like the finish on a car. It`s surprising what you can do with a small amount of fabric and paint, and a whole lot of elbow grease. rick markel

You are right, of course. I wonder which Sig plane I am thinking of? The Kommander? There was a foam winged, solid tail Sig model that resembled the Kavalier - I think...

Ed Cregger

I'll bet you can smell that a mile away!

I still cover with silk and Sig still sells it. Silk adds great strengt

to a model I remember when people first started using Super Monocote o thear models and it was amaizing how many inflight wing failures peopl were having. Models designed prior to Monocote depended on the coverin for part of there structural strengh. Some coverings such as Solorfil gave even less strengh than Monocote. Silkspan adds similar structura strenght but is not as tear or puncture resistant. Also at least to m when you cover a model with plastic it looks like a plastic airplane

-- RICHARD385

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