X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Received: from relay04.roc.ny.frontiernet.net ([66.133.182.167] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.0c2) with ESMTP id 731535 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Fri, 23 Sep 2005 21:39:17 -0400 Received-SPF: pass receiver=logan.com; client-ip=66.133.182.167; envelope-from=canarder@frontiernet.net Received: from filter09.roc.ny.frontiernet.net (filter09.roc.ny.frontiernet.net [66.133.183.76]) by relay04.roc.ny.frontiernet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BBC53580B3 for ; Sat, 24 Sep 2005 01:38:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from relay04.roc.ny.frontiernet.net ([66.133.182.167]) by filter09.roc.ny.frontiernet.net (filter09.roc.ny.frontiernet.net [66.133.183.76]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 03108-03-95 for ; Sat, 24 Sep 2005 01:38:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (70-98-141-2.dsl1.csv.tn.frontiernet.net [70.98.141.2]) by relay04.roc.ny.frontiernet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0467835805F for ; Sat, 24 Sep 2005 01:38:32 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4334AE18.6060602@frontiernet.net> Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 20:38:32 -0500 From: Jim Sower User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040514 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rotary motors in aircraft Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: Powersports RV-8 engine out???..... Total References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------060604060002060408070407" X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 0538-7, 09/23/2005), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-2.3.2 (20050629) at filter09.roc.ny.frontiernet.net This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------060604060002060408070407 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Yup. That's right. If there's a single point of failure, the odds of a catastrophe are the same as the odds of that single component failing. If it takes "a whole bunch" of failures strung together to cause a catastrophe, the odds of it happening are the *product* of the odds of all the individual pieces multiplied together. I was doing the math. IIRC the original post said something like "... no flags, no warnings, no nothing ..." We'll know soon enough what happened ... Jim S. Dale Rogers wrote: >Jim, > > You're *assuming*, aren't you, that this was the result >of a _single_ failure? Could have been a whole bunch of >things went to &#^!, and the "failsafe" failed, too. > >Dale R. > > > > >>From: Jim Sower >>Date: 2005/09/23 Fri PM 05:35:39 EDT >>To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" >>Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Powersports RV-8 engine out???..... Total >> Electrical Failure >> >>Amazing that an all-electric airplane would have a single point of >>failure in the electrical system. >>Wonder what happened ... >> >> > > > >-- >Homepage: http://www.flyrotary.com/ >Archive and UnSub: http://mail.lancaironline.net/lists/flyrotary/ > > > > --------------060604060002060408070407 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Yup.  That's right.  If there's a single point of failure, the odds of a catastrophe are the same as the odds of that single component failing.  If it takes "a whole bunch" of failures strung together to cause a catastrophe, the odds of it happening are the product of the odds of all the individual pieces multiplied together.   I was doing the math.  IIRC the original post said something like "... no flags, no warnings, no nothing ..."
We'll know soon enough what happened ... Jim S.

Dale Rogers wrote:
Jim,

   You're *assuming*, aren't you, that this was the result 
of a _single_ failure?  Could have been a whole bunch of 
things went to &#^!, and the "failsafe" failed, too.

Dale R.


  
From: Jim Sower <canarder@frontiernet.net>
Date: 2005/09/23 Fri PM 05:35:39 EDT
To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Powersports RV-8 engine out???..... Total
 Electrical Failure

Amazing that an all-electric airplane would have a single point of 
failure in the electrical system.
Wonder what happened ...  
    



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