RE: [VAL] plans for new Airstream motorhomes

["David Tidmore" <dtidmore@xxxxxxx>]

Opening up the top of an A/S would pose many issues with structural
integrity.  While there are ribs installed between the exterior and interior
aluminum skins, the ribs acts only as the framework that holds the inner and
outer skins together, they don't actually carry the forces. It is skin
itself that is the structural framework of the A/S body.  Small openings can
be accommodated such as skylights and roofvents as the opening area is so
much smaller than the remaining skin.


Another fun idea would be to see an older Airstream that would have it's top

"popped" up to allow the feel of an atrium inside like in grand hotel 
lobbies.  Would this be called a top slider? ;)

Tom Meeker
WBCCI 5303