Designing for GA flight freedom: Liberty XL-2 debuts at SAMPE - Part 2 of 3.

Advanced Materials & Composites News,  June, 2001  by McConnell, Vicki P.

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Combining composites with metal in XL-2 structure While the Europa is an all-composite kit plane and the XL-2 will be a fully type certified, factory-delivered airplane that combines a composite fuselage with metal subchassis and landing gear, there is transfer of successful technology between the two designs.

"Certainly we gained experience and confidence building nearly a thousand Europa kits, from the first 50 made via standard wet layup through development of the premolded wing/fuselage components with sandwich structure," states Russell. "When we were ...

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