Mack cdl

[GliderPilot]

Hi guys.

Just a quick technical question that i can't find an answer to anywhere else. Hope you can help. I come from a gliding background and am used to k7's and k13's being covered with ceconite and dopes. What type of material is used to cover microlights such as the mack cdl?

[nicow]

Were do you get a mac cdl-I thought they all no longer exist....
Microlight wings are covered with decron.

[falconp1]

It's a material called Dacron. If you take your old material bits to Rainbow Aircraft the lady there might just make you a new set (if you ask very nicely).

[GliderPilot]

Somebody came asking around the airfield about re-covering his plane. Don't know where he bought it but sounded like it was in a bad state so i told him I would do some research on the subject.

Thanks a lot for the help.

[kloot piloot]

Mac cdl is old tech, but makes an excellent cabage patch flyer. The huge dyhedral makes it a stable (fly by rudder only) aerie but also makes it to dislike wind. I sold one 2 years ago for 10K complete with new sail and 503SI. Ailerons on the aerie are also referred to as drag-erons. If airframe AOK and owner willing to spend (my estimate) 20K on new sail, then he has nice toy, but not a cross country machine. Rather go for plenty buy-and-go Windlass offers in the for sale section on this forum.

Mac CDL's, they just take up SOOOOO much hangar space !

As said above, sail is simple dacron, similar to almost all trike wing's under-surfaces.

[GliderPilot]

Thanks again. Could you pm your details and a I'll forward to the owner directly so he can have a word with you?

[salem]

Who says that MAC-CDL's no longer fly?

[nicow]

Who says that MAC-CDL's no longer fly?

Very nice