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(Cessna) Skycatcher Prototype Crashes
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| 9/18/08
| Niles
Posted on 09/18/2008 1:55:37 PM PDT by pabianice
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To: devane617
Nevermind. Re-read all the words in the article. It says the pilot landed 400 yards from the crash site, meaning he jumped. Oops.
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posted on
09/18/2008 2:38:42 PM PDT
by
CodeToad
To: CougarGA7
Hey, do you have and extra 14k in your budget. I want to get something. After the jello wrestling mail order bride you got with the last 14K, I'm afraid to ask.
To: Tijeras_Slim
Out of nowhere....thanks you own me a fresh can of soda
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posted on
09/18/2008 2:44:47 PM PDT
by
Domandred
(McWhathisname / Palin - 2008)
To: Domandred; CougarGA7
Talk to Cougar, he’s the one with the cash.
To: Tijeras_Slim
I didn’t know that she came with accessories, but they cost extra.
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posted on
09/18/2008 2:51:13 PM PDT
by
CougarGA7
(Wisdom comes with age, but sometimes age comes alone.)
To: Domandred
I’m sure Cessna has made a fine plane here but making it cheaper doesn’t seem to be the best idea.
How about making it as well as it can be made?
This has got to set back Cessnas efforts to enter the L.S.A. market.
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posted on
09/18/2008 3:03:44 PM PDT
by
Joe Boucher
(An enemy of Islam)
To: pabianice
You can speculate. I could say it most likely was an engine failure. I’ve heard that one in three new engines fail in the first year in aviation.
Private pilot here living on a private airport.
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posted on
09/18/2008 3:05:52 PM PDT
by
Joe Boucher
(An enemy of Islam)
To: CodeToad
Based on the report he landed 400 yards from the aircraft, so it implies he had his own chute.
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posted on
09/18/2008 3:06:02 PM PDT
by
Rev DMV
To: cll
Lycoming, Continental, Rotax, I can go on here but they all have problems and it doesn’t make sense. I mean how can Ford screw up a pick up truck? They’ve only make how many millions?
You’d think they’d get it right by now.
Same for engine manufacturers.
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posted on
09/18/2008 3:08:40 PM PDT
by
Joe Boucher
(An enemy of Islam)
To: Tijeras_Slim; Eaker
Speaking of mechanical disasters, hows things? After your first few words, I was expecting a joke about Eaker...
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posted on
09/18/2008 3:16:49 PM PDT
by
thackney
(life is fragile, handle with prayer)
To: SkyDancer
Same thing with the Kit Fox ... fuel tank right there in front of you .... scary ..... That is the big problem with fuel injected engines, it complicates fuel management without a header tank. So that is why I eliminated the header tank in my Subaru powered GlaStar. I simply put in a cooled, pressurized loop that vents the vapor bubbles that are formed by the pressure regulator and the heat of the engine.
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posted on
09/18/2008 3:26:18 PM PDT
by
LeGrande
To: pabianice
Just reissue the Aeronca C-3. Cheap and there is nothing to break.
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posted on
09/18/2008 3:26:45 PM PDT
by
TexanToTheCore
(If it ain't Rugby or Bullriding, it's for girls.........................................)
To: AN-GEE; another bot for W; appleears; Aqua_Aquality; AttractiveHen; ax2grin..
If you would like on or off this low volume I see my hands' life story ping list then please email me. When we were twelve years old my friends and I were cutting through the golf course (golf course at lower left, crash area at push pin A) and saw a plane in the distance falling from the sky in a steep spiral. It passed behind some trees. A few minutes later we saw another small plane, assumed it was the same one and that it "must have pulled out." It wasn't until I got home until I realized there were two planes and the first crashed on my street, four houses down from my own. My father, a fire fighter on duty that day, received the 9/11 call and was not given an address, just the street and block.. his own. Da da dahhh! It was a Cessna, the pilot and his sole passenger were killed instantly. (RIP guys.) No one on ground was injured. Moderate property damage to this house and its detached garage. For many years I would use this story to score chicks.
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To: LeGrande
I’ve flown Cessna Cardinal’s and the new 172 SP (that sucker has five, 5,!!! tank sumps per wing) - all fuel injected ....
Subaru engines are coveted by a lot of experimental guys ... great engine .....
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posted on
09/18/2008 3:41:53 PM PDT
by
SkyDancer
("I Believe In The Law Until It Interferes With Justice")
To: LeGrande
I’ve flown Cessna Cardinal’s and the new 172 SP (that sucker has five, 5,!!! tank sumps per wing) - all fuel injected ....
Subaru engines are coveted by a lot of experimental guys ... great engine .....
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posted on
09/18/2008 3:41:54 PM PDT
by
SkyDancer
("I Believe In The Law Until It Interferes With Justice")
To: SkyDancer
Ive flown Cessna Cardinals and the new 172 SP (that sucker has five, 5,!!! tank sumps per wing) - all fuel injected .... Do you have to manually switch tanks? Tell me that they have an automated system.
I have 5 sumps too : ( One for each wing tank, two under the fuselage (it could have been one) and one at the engine. I typically just check the two under the fuselage and engine sump because the engine sump can catch a cup of water or so.
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posted on
09/18/2008 3:52:36 PM PDT
by
LeGrande
To: LeGrande
Yep - left, right and both ... on the other a/c you have five for each wing, and lower sump ....
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posted on
09/18/2008 3:54:11 PM PDT
by
SkyDancer
("I Believe In The Law Until It Interferes With Justice")
To: LeGrande
Yep - left, right and both ... on the other a/c you have five for each wing, and lower sump ....
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posted on
09/18/2008 3:54:11 PM PDT
by
SkyDancer
("I Believe In The Law Until It Interferes With Justice")
To: null and void
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posted on
09/18/2008 4:09:06 PM PDT
by
Publius6961
(Change is not a plan; Hope is not a strategy.)
To: Tijeras_Slim
Accidents happen! Honest!
Never bring a Chinese fighter-jet to a fight (collision)
with an old slow American airplane.
I suppose crappy pilot Wong Wei is a national hero with the ChiComms.
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posted on
09/18/2008 4:13:48 PM PDT
by
VOA
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