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It seems the picture of my 235 on the flat bed made it all over the
country. The engine failed at about 200ft AGL. Yes, I do have Jim's AOA but
can't remember hearing it talking to me as I as I was on short final to the
truck bed. It has give me critical warnings several other times since over
the last two years. The one time I looked at the airspeed I was close to
the warning range. I was concentrating on finding a opening in traffic and
may not remember hearing it.  I didn't see the truck while on the short
final since the nose was up with only TO flaps, but I saw the vehicles that
would be below me as I turned final.  I was waiting till the oncoming lanes
were clear of two semi's that were abreast to jog left. The total flight
time was less than one minute - 1.2 miles from the GPS runway center after
another 300 feet more of travel on the truck bed while it was stopping.
I still don't know why the engine failed, the NTSB rep will come here
Thursday and we'll investigate. My thoughts now are a failure in the
magneto drive area, but it could be the fuel, carburetion, air inlet, or
throttle linkage.
I haven't decided if I'm going to reattach the tail and fix the cowl or
move everything I can to a close to complete 320 airframe. There wasn't a
scratch on the wings, top or bottom. I was a very lucky fellow!

Rusty


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