Several years ago I looked at a light beige tan KR2. Beautiful plane but it had several spots of bubble de-lamination.
Even though I have burgundy and gray paint along the lower areas of my Fuse, I have white on the most of the top and composite areas. I say stay white and have read a lot about the importance of using white on composites. I also owned several Corvettes over the years past and GM uses a curing process in their production that the typical home builder does not have access to. Most of my vettes were either red or black and I still had problems with de-laminations and other problems that were associated with dark paint on composite structures. Again, I say white. Jeff York KR-2 2010 KR Gathering Peoples choice and Best Interior Georgetown Scott County Airport ----- Original Message ---- From: "rdrace...@aol.com" <rdrace...@aol.com> To: kr...@mylist.net Sent: Tue, May 3, 2011 9:10:53 PM Subject: Re: KR> Why So Much White Paint? Dave Goodman up around Whidbey Island Washington has his painted with the Gray and Blue camouflaged paint scheme the Navy uses on their F-18s and I haven't heard him mention anything about problems with high temperatures yet. Todd Thelin Spanaway, WA In a message dated 5/3/2011 2:40:25 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, fles...@frontier.com writes: That might be a bit of "overkill". At one of the Gatherings years ago there was a KR that was painted a very light lavender color and did not seem to suffer any ill effects. Who was the retired military pilot that had his KR photo used by Rand in their promotional photos? Roy Marsh as I recall. It had a considerable amount of grey or silver paint on it. _______________________________________ Search the KRnet Archives at http://www.maddyhome.com/krsrch/index.jsp to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@mylist.net please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html
