X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com X-SpamCatcher-Score: 10 [X] Return-Path: Received: from web55109.mail.re4.yahoo.com ([206.190.58.158] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.7) with SMTP id 1901721 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Mon, 05 Mar 2007 01:34:49 -0500 Received-SPF: none receiver=logan.com; client-ip=206.190.58.158; envelope-from=rx7ez@yahoo.com Received: (qmail 54170 invoked by uid 60001); 5 Mar 2007 06:33:46 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=wsNwQHs04+3BDWT7iMmU7WZOFPYA74jzb22YL5b2gQEsrSBw+19t6QclIMEcsOdu27sgJKS7Cm9wUPw9fWrT5Sf6ZiHjkfnMRlObuK3IGjqpvGB9ERojCeUPYfcSu9oaJNgv2VoXsZJTo4rsIXOKc2qPZKGYPKM4XFEReN/Ea6c=; X-YMail-OSG: hw2lHw8VM1nYhvoafbjjc.kR_g3De95kKwezPX.fDIbZB5vMBjEeYv.flvghqCNnmg-- Received: from [71.99.50.201] by web55109.mail.re4.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sun, 04 Mar 2007 22:33:46 PST Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2007 22:33:46 -0800 (PST) From: George Graham Subject: Hard landing damage To: flyrotary MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="0-755641479-1173076426=:54049" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <229949.54049.qm@web55109.mail.re4.yahoo.com> --0-755641479-1173076426=:54049 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit My heart goes out to Mr White, to suffer such a catastrophy. I had a similar landing many years ago, on our first New York to Florida trip. The winds in South Carolina were severe, and I didn't add enough speed to my landing, my bird really fell from the sky bouncing hard, I didn't think fast enough to go around, and pushed the nose down instead. The second bounce was worse than the first, and the nose gear linkage broke collapsing the nose gear. The main gear legs spread so much that the brake bleeders were ground off the calipers. The main gear attach bolts were bent. My wife had black and blue marks from the shoulder harness. That landing was on a Saturday, and we ddn't get the bird home until the next Saturday. But then I read about a similar landing in Southern Ontario, that airplane had a fuel tank in front of the instrument panel, and the nose gear linkage punctured it. Both persons on board perished in the fire. How lucky we were to be alive and able to repair the damage. George Graham Sarasota Florida Mazda RX7 EZ --------------------------------- Don't pick lemons. See all the new 2007 cars at Yahoo! Autos. --0-755641479-1173076426=:54049 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit My heart goes out to Mr White, to suffer such a catastrophy.

I had a similar landing many years ago, on our first New York to Florida trip.
The winds in South Carolina were severe, and I didn't add enough speed to my landing, my bird really fell from the sky bouncing hard, I didn't think fast enough to go around, and pushed the nose down instead. The second bounce was worse than the first, and the nose gear linkage broke collapsing the nose gear.  The main gear legs spread so much that the brake bleeders were ground off the calipers.  The main gear attach bolts were bent. My wife had black and blue marks from the shoulder harness.  That landing was on a Saturday, and we ddn't get the bird home until the next Saturday. 

But then I read about a similar landing in Southern Ontario, that airplane had a fuel tank in front of the instrument panel, and the nose gear linkage punctured it. Both persons on board perished in the fire.

How lucky we were to be alive and able to repair the damage.


George Graham
Sarasota Florida
Mazda RX7 EZ

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