Wonder if Joe has flown it yet.
I WAS WONDER THAT VERY SAME THING? Randy!
(ABOUT YOUR MELTING DECALS!!! SOOO SORRY! BUT I CAN'T HELP MYSELF!! I HAVE TO KIDNAP THIS POST...SIMPLY BECAUSE BOTH JOE AND I FELT SO STRONGLY ABOUT THAT DECAL PROBLEM...during the years we were serving our incarceration time behind the barbed wire fences at the wind tunnel.
I TOO... FEEL YOUR PAIN! When it comes to painting over decals too quickly..
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WOW! what memories that brings back....years ago at that darned wind tunnel.
During those "between wind tunnel runs" often our NASA and MILITARY customers would want us to perform a QUICK GLAMOUR DECAL JOB over those REALLY RIPE AND FRESHLY PAINTED force models while in flight test mode. Knowing that not only would these decals would soon pull away and blow down the tunnel...so with that in mind....We would lightly spray clear coat over them with our little Iwata detail airbrushes--KNOWING PRETTY PRETTY PRETTY MUCH FOR CERTAIN...that not only would they quickly dissolve quickly and fly waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay down the tunnel, even at low speeds!!!
EVEN MUCH WORSE...(EVEN THOUGH THE CUSTOMER WOULD ALWAYS THINK THEY WERE RIGHT??)
Because of that....were risking MORE SERIOUS DAMAGE to the carefully applied precise coating thickness of basis paint on those high speed NASA test models, which would mean another couple of hours of overtime paint re-work-------BEFORE those WAAAY OVER BUDGET MIDNIGHT MODEL TEST RUNS could begin again.