Mailing List lml@lancaironline.net Message #57939
From: Bill Maddox <reddog@smwireless.net>
Sender: <marv@lancaironline.net>
Subject: RE: True "composite" question
Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2011 02:40:23 -0400
To: <lml@lancaironline.net>

Ok this is why I said nuts

 First: You don’t have flying experience  20 hrs a year + the ticket isn’t time flying

Second : this is exactly why most crash there plane in the ntsb reports you read

 Third : You need seat time and a good stall warning device [ aoa]  that works not a pair of wings that will not work on that plane

 Just a look at this from my own perspective   you see most of the accidents stem from building the plane and not flying and that is the real issue

 I’m my own worst critic for I hadn’t flown for some time as well even though I have many thousands of hours I still think I need seat time in what ever I fly be it a c-150 or a Boeing , Douglas or a gulfstream which I have many hours in all four

 If you go further into most accidents you might find the power plant failed first not the wing  so you might want to look into 2 engines first then a plane that can accommodate the power plants and also go twice as slow and 4 times the fuel   Be safe

  Engine out is a training exercise that needs training by all pilots and is a forgotten training tool  for most of the accidents are related to forward speed  before you reach the gate

 I was told this in training some 50 years ago and it still holds water as I taught it to my students - if all goes wrong FLY THE  F-en PLANE    Bill

 

 


From: Tim Jørgensen [mailto:tj@yacht-pool.dk]
Sent: Friday, April 01, 2011 7:35 AM
To: lml@lancaironline.net
Subject: True "composite" question

 

Hi all.

 

My LNC2 is near completion and I have started preparing all the paperwork necessary for the flight permit.

During my research I have stumbeled across the NTSB website and made a search on "Lancair 360". For those of you who have not done that (probably most!), this is HORRIFIC reading !!!

There seems to be quite a large number of stall related accidents, which leads me to believe that the airfoil is basically unsafe. Anyway, I am not going to fly this thing as is, although I have had my license for more than 20 years and have accumulated more than 200 hrs.

I have now come across a set of RV-7 wings that survived a hangar collapse last winter. This airfoil seems much more forgiving, anyway, that is what my A&P says, and I am trying to come up with a way to install them on my otherwise finished airframe. I will, of course, have to keep the stub wings and make them fit the slightly larger RV wing but, apart from that, would I be in for at lot work? Has anyone done this before? Any advice taken!

 

Regards

Tim Jorgensen

Lancair 360, was 95% done, now back to maybe 60%..... 

  

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