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intuitive description of strength to weight ratio wanted

Usually fabric has a good strength to weight ratio and stiffness if it has long straight fibers in tight contact with other fibers (woven) pointing in the same direction. From the short description it seems as if fibers would slip into each other much like in a muscle if the dope is applied. May be we can compare it to heat shrinking of polyester. For most sails or for spokes in wheels and buildings the tension is actively applied. Dope is only used if this is not possible. -- Arnero (talk) 15:16, 11 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Dope-on-tissue model aircraft construction

First off, let me apologize if my reason for removing the "citation needed" tag from the line concerning model aircraft was inadequate. However, having some knowledge of model aircraft construction, I must stand by my opinion. Dope is routinely applied over tissue, and attempting to find a reference stating as much would likely be as hard as finding a reference stating that the sky is up. I could of course cite such things as magazine articles and build logs that mention using dope over tissue, but I doubt that those would meet the standards of a Wikipedia-worthy reference either (If they do, please mention it and I will gladly provide some). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.16.134.101 (talk) 03:56, 3 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

No problem. As per WP:V every bit of substantial text that makes claims needs to cite a reference, no matter how obvious to some people. If this is really very common knowledge then it should be easy to find references. - Ahunt (talk) 11:13, 3 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

All of the above is of course true 8) so I've added a line on modelling use with a reference p.r.newman (talk) 22:03, 14 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

White?

I removed this as it is unreferenced, and in my view plain wrong. I have been around aircraft for a long time and have only come across two colours for dope - Clear and Silver. These are used to taughten the fabric and over painted to give colours. They are rarely used with added pigment as it usually degrades the performance of the dope.

White is most common to reflect damaging sunlight, but any colour can be supplied and existing colors can usually be matched by manufacturers.^{[citation needed]}

--Petebutt (talk) 04:59, 9 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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