Re: inflatable boats

On Wed, 2004-05-05 at 21:44, [email protected] wrote:

> Good point, against your premise. I'm a boater and I know that an
> inflatable boat has a rigid, reinforced fiberglass V hull under it to
> take the dynamic stress. 

	Wrong; that's called an RIB. I was talking about the old-style fully
inflatable Zodiacs. Zodiac and Avon still make them, you know. The
slamming loads on those relatively low-pressure tubes at speed are of
the same order as the Shuttle's max-Q. 

>         Why would you care to support a silly thing like a balloon
> fuselage enough to email me about it? Are you  mischievous?

	You said stupid things in public. Balloon tanks are no sillier than
soft drink cans -- the principle is the same. 

	-p