Pat and All,
Very sad as truly innovative and honest people are often in short supply in
our small experimental group..............He flew what he sold and when the root
cause of the accident is determined will most probably be in the accessory
systems and not in his very inventive propeller redrive unit............
Kelly Troyer
"DYKE DELTA JD2" (Eventually)
"13B ROTARY"_ Engine
"RWS"_RD1C/EC2/EM2
"MISTRAL"_Backplate/Oil Manifold
"TURBONETICS"_TO4E50 Turbo
From: Pat Panzera <editor.contactmagazine@gmail.com>
To: Rotary motors in aircraft <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Sent: Mon, May 9, 2011 4:12:23 PM
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Bud Warren - Geared Drives - Fatal Crash
Sorry if my comment seemed blunt.
Bud and Phyllis were especially close to me and I'm having a tough time with this.
I'm in the middle of dedicating the next issues of EAA's Experimenter and CONTACT! Magazine to them.
I have a Geared Drives product announcement type of article ready for CONTACT! that I'm still going to print. The announcement was to coincide with their upcoming AirVenture appearance.
They are also on the schedule to speak at the upcoming Alternative Engine Round-Up we have each year. They came last year and had a great time and were looking forward to bringing the Raven to this year's event.
On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 2:03 PM, Thomas Giddings
<tom@midwestaviation.net> wrote:
Pat: Thank You I stand corrected...I hope the investigation of the cause of this accident will give us a definitive cause of this tragedy.
Tom Giddings
VP Avionics Sales
On May 9, 2011, at 3:31 PM, Pat Panzera wrote:
Broken oil line, not fuel line.
His last incident was a a broken fuel line as I understand it. They were both Very nice people and real pioneers in the Experimental Alternative engine world. I feel the loss and I hardly knew them. I can only imagine how there friends and family must feel. My prayers and thoughts are with those grieving there loss.
Tom Giddings
VP Avionics Sales
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On May 9, 2011, at 11:57 AM, Dave wrote:
On 5/9/2011 11:07 AM, Bobby J. Hughes wrote:
The experimental community lost another member this weekend.
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2011/05/08/Texas-pilot-daughter-killed-in-crash/UPI-34421304882515/
Bobby
It did...
This is the second time he was behind the helm of a converted LS1 engine that caught fire in flight on him... Thats not to say the auto-conversion concept is at fault, but there may be something to the oil or fuel systems that needs to be looked at (Im presuming this is a FWF type package)...
Dave