For the statistics and general entertainment.
I had a cylinder fail in a Lycoming powered Cherokee last week at 300AGL.
Went from 400 fpm climb to a few fpm descend, did a uneventful tailwind
landing, sticking valve or so, was a flying club plane so I dunno what broke
yet but engine made no metallic noise just one missing cylinder.
Had a precautionary landing with my Continental O-200 Vari EZ on a dry
lakebed in Nevada couple of years ago, electronic ignition had an
intermittent issue that must have caused way early ignition so it was like a
complete loss of power.
Instructor coworker of mine had a cylinder fail last year, skydiver pilot
coworker had a cylinder fail two years ago. Another buddy of mine had his
freshly overhauled O-540 damaged by a loose nut in the case, another buddy
had his Jacobs radial just throw a rod.
Then there is the guy I talked to two weeks ago that just convinced me to
toss out my aluminum firewall and go stainless, because his turbo broke off
of the manifold in his Lanceair and something burned a whole into the
firewall, because the fiberfrax doesn't withstand fast moving gases.
Had a no start on a PT6 turbine last year, and sat in the right seat during
a no start on a Garret the year before.
What I make of that? Trying to come up with a good exhaust manifold, keeping
oil on the other side of the engine where there is no exhaust, etc. I want a
high climb-rate that is better than the sink with the engine stopped, so I
can get back to the airport.
Thinking about fires (talking about my plastic Long EZ) the thought crossed
my mind to have a manual steam release valve in the engine compartment to
extinguish fires. (fire at 17500 feet still means 5 minutes of a dive before
getting to the ground).

re

Marko






> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rotary motors in aircraft [mailto:flyrotary@lancaironline.net]On
> Behalf Of Finn Lassen
> Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 9:03 PM
> To: Rotary motors in aircraft
> Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Sigh! Another engine out Glide!
>
>
> Ed Anderson wrote:
>
> >Just another day of adventure in rotary land with Ed Anderson.
> >
> >Ed Anderson
> >
> You know, reading most of the recent postings to this list one could
> easily get the idea that our motto is:
>
> "Need some exitement in your life? Fly a rotary!"
>
> Amazing that people new to this list would actually still consider
> putting a rotary in their airplanes!
>
> Finn (close to 400 hours and still in one piece).
>
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