The front of my friends Cessna 210 leading edges and even the top skins of the wing and the top skin on the back of the fuselage was dented.
But the fiberglass nose bowl which you think would take the hardest impacts was completely fine.
It would be interesting to shoot some hailstones out of an air cannon at a layup that would represent what Lancair uses.

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> On Jan 14, 2014, at 7:28, Jeff Edwards <vtailjeff@aol.com> wrote:
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> You ever see the picture of the DC 9 with the hail damaged radome? Not pretty.
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>> On Jan 12, 2014, at 8:46 PM, Todd Long <toddlong1@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> So earlier this year one of my friends was vectored into a hail shaft up in Canada while flying his 210.  Dented it up pretty bad.  Everything but the fuselage is being reskinned. I think the insurance claim is about $50k.
>> Has anyone had experience on what damage hail does to the carbon fiber airframes? One of those hangar conversations.
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