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Why has the SR22 been such a success?

Both planes are an all carbon fiber design

Really?

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Shoreham EGKA, United Kingdom

There are so many errors in that last post by USFlyer – me thinks it’s best just to ignore it

Last Edited by Michael at 25 Dec 09:06
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Are there any all carbon fibre planes in mainstream GA?

You would get an awfully rough ride.

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Shoreham EGKA, United Kingdom

Not that I know of.

Cirrus only started using carbon for the wing spar in @ 2007 with the G3 but all of the Lancair/Columbia/Ttx have carbon fibre wing spars from the first production aircraft. It is massively over-built with dual spars .
Last Edited by Michael at 25 Dec 11:58
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There are some microlights like the “Millenium” that are completely carbon fibre, and also some experimentals like the “Papa51 ThunderMustang”, 2/3 copy of the P-51 Mustang, which is also 100 percent carbon fibre. Some other kitplanes aswell.

The Cirrus was 100 % glass fibre to the G2 model. The G3 introduced a carbon fibre main spar of identical strength – but 87 lbs lighter.

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