Re: [Paddlewise] Custom Cockpit update [lead shot?]

From: Michael Edelman <mje_at_bob.pass.wayne.edu>
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 11:30:55 -0500 (EST)
On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Bob Denton wrote:

> 
> > On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Richard Fawcett wrote:
> > 
> 
> > (anyone got any depeleted uranium lying around?) 
> > 
> 
> Actually that's not as off the wall as you might think. depleted 
> uranium is used in aircraft manufacturing to balance the CG of 
> aircraft..especially the ones built in Seattle. If you have a 
> connection....
> 

Ship's ballast, too; I recall a 300' three masted ship built by a French
consortium for the round-the-wold singlehanded race a few years ago used a
DU ballast. I'm only *half* joking... ;-)

--mike
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 Michael Edelman                   mje_at_mich.com 
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