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Bob, I think you may be referring to my good friend, Finn Lassen - Yes, Finn
also found a cushion in the top of some tall pines. But as they say any
"landing" you can walk away from is a good landing. If the aircraft will fly
again, it's a fine landing and if it will fly again without repair it's a
GREAT landing.
I hope there was not any inference in you question, Bob, about being friends
with Ed Anderson and Trees in your future?
I think we will see Finn back in the air with us before long. Trying to
build a house at Shady Bend and an aircraft also takes a bit of doing.
Ed
Ed Anderson
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From: Rotary motors in aircraft [mailto:flyrotary@lancaironline.net] On
Behalf Of Bob White
Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2009 9:19 AM
To: Rotary motors in aircraft
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Accident - Oly Olson Down but Alive and
well!!!!!!!!!!!
Wow! That's a great ending for what could have been a total disaster.
I don't know Oly, but I'm tickled pink that he's OK.
Ed, Didn't you have another friend that landed in a tree?
Bob W.
On Thu, 9 Jul 2009 08:45:57 -0400
"Ed Anderson" <eanderson@carolina.rr.com> wrote:
> I am posting the contents of a report of an accident involving my friend
Oly
> Olson and his rotary Vari-Veggan that was posted on Van's RV List by David
> Domeier. Oly was using an Ellison Throttle body rather then EFI and was
> working on sorting it out. I was attempting to assist him over the phone
> and via e mail. He seem to have a problem getting the Ellison to both
idle
> well and still provide adequate fuel flow on the high end. He was
thinking
> of going to a different size Ellison to see if that cured the problem.
I
> have no further details at this time and no indication of what the cause
of
> engine stoppage might have been. He had flown several times with the
> Ellison. Oly and his wife had stopped by to visit me last year, a great
> couple.
>
>
>
> I think it clear that having the right "reflexes" are necessary in such a
> situation - because there is no time to think - just react. Even so Oly
> clearly is a great stick man to get the aircraft oriented up right before
> striking the trees.
>
>
>
> The body of the report follows:
>
>
>
> Ed
>
>
>
> REPORT
>
> ".
>
> I received a cell phone call from a friend at KSUS (St. Louis Spirit) this
> afternoon at about 1:35 pm. He was upset and could hardly say what had
just
> seen. From his open hangar he witnessed a mutual friend on down wind leg
> suddenly pitch up, roll nearly inverted and disappear behind an adjacent
row
> of hangers in what appeared to be 45 degree dive. He said we just lost
Olie.
>
>
> Olie is one of the guys in a local group messing around with experimental
> airplanes, he was trying to get the one and only metal built VariViggin to
> fly with a Mazda rotary engine. This was the second or third time Olie had
> attempted to fly the airplane in the past several years. It was a
beautiful
> machine copied from original drawings and built by a couple engineers in
> Canada and painted like a Blue Angel F-18. Olie bought it and had it
trucked
> in. We were in total shock and not feeling well at all about this
happening
> to a guy we knew so well.
>
> I was really in the dumps when the phone rang again about 20 minutes
later.
> It was the same friend calling to say local guys were reporting Olie was
> walking around the wreckage which was up in a tree. I said, this is the
best
> phone call I have ever received, wow!
>
> I had Olie's cell phone number and called him. Sure enough, he was alive
and
> well, and I said man am I glad to hear your voice. He said things happened
> real quick and he would brief everyone as soon as possible, meanwhile he
was
> waiting for the FAA and also looking for a ride back to the airport. (he
may
> not have been aware of it, but there was quite a traffic jam developing on
> Airport Road as a number of people saw him go in, one said he couldn't
> believe he was not killed, all this on a local TV web site)
>
> This evening I received more info on what happened. The engine quit at
about
> 90 knots on down wind leg and the airplane pitched up immediately,
probably
> due to a high thrust line, speed dropped off to about 70, and the machine
> rolled nearly inverted about that quick. Olie said "some basic instinct
> kicked in - I pushed the nose down trying to recover some speed and kicked
> rudder real hard trying to get the airplane to roll back up right" - it
did
> just that before it hit the trees. He climbed down with hardly a scratch.
>
> We are thankful our friend Olie is with us tonight...."
>
> __________________
>
>
>
> Needless to say so are we. I sent Oly an e mail asking that when he got
> things sorted out to provide any information he could about what he though
> the cause of the engine stoppage was. One thing from this incident shows
> that regardless of whether using and EFI system, a Carburetor or other
means
> of providing fuel - they all require sorting out and you can encounter
> difficulties with any of them.
>
> Ed Anderson
>
> Rv-6A N494BW Rotary Powered
>
> Matthews, NC
>
> eanderson@carolina.rr.com
>
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