X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Received: from relay03.roc.ny.frontiernet.net ([66.133.182.166] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.3c5) with ESMTP id 948342 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Wed, 18 May 2005 01:36:40 -0400 Received-SPF: pass receiver=logan.com; client-ip=66.133.182.166; envelope-from=canarder@frontiernet.net Received: from filter01.roc.ny.frontiernet.net (filter01.roc.ny.frontiernet.net [66.133.183.68]) by relay03.roc.ny.frontiernet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77F7335C47A for ; Wed, 18 May 2005 05:35:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from relay03.roc.ny.frontiernet.net ([66.133.182.166]) by filter01.roc.ny.frontiernet.net (filter01.roc.ny.frontiernet.net [66.133.183.68]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 01544-09-2 for ; Wed, 18 May 2005 05:35:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (67-137-82-124.dsl2.cok.tn.frontiernet.net [67.137.82.124]) by relay03.roc.ny.frontiernet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF7F535C46F for ; Wed, 18 May 2005 05:35:54 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <428AD42D.3050206@frontiernet.net> Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 00:35:41 -0500 From: Jim Sower User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040514 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rotary motors in aircraft Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: Paul References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 0520-1, 05/17/2005), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20040701 (2.0) at filter01.roc.ny.frontiernet.net <... it would be painful for me to have to do this ...>
I know what you mean Rusty. But it's something you have to do if you get the opportunity, and I think you have to pursue that opportunity for a variety of reasons.

I've spent afternoons with a butter knife and a plastic bag policing bits and pieces of a friend off the trees and rocks. It's shitty duty, but you wouldn't want a stranger doing it.

If I knew what you know about rotaries, I'd be banging on their door ... Jim S.

Russell Duffy wrote:

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   I hope the FAA does allow input during the investigation from one of the
local list members (Tracy, Lynn or Rusty?) that has an understanding of the
aircraft rotary conversion, so as to hopefully find the truth, so that we may
all learn from this. I fear that they may just call it "failure of a modified
engine" and be done with it, which would just add to this tragedy.

From what we've heard from Ken Welter, in the past, the NTSB isn't necessarily interested in doing any more than filling in the boxes on the investigation form for experimentals. They will be able to do a credible job of investigating the airframe, and some general info about the engine, such as whether it was running when it went down. As in the past, they will likely have a local Mazda dealer inspect the engine, since they are the "experts".

If requested, I would be willing to do what I can to inspect the engine, but I have to be honest about this. I met Paul several times, and spoke with him a few more than that, and it would be painful for me to have to do this. I just don't want to see the wreckage. I almost flew over Saturday to surprise him, and just can't get over the fact that I can't do that now.

Rusty