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From: Russell Duffy

To: Rotary motors in aircraft

Sent: Sunday, December 19, 2004 7:16 PM

Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Short intake & George Graham update

George Graham, one of the early aviation rotary adopters, isn't on the list so though I'd pass along his latest.  After 200+ hours, his second Mazda manual transmission (2nd gear) PSRU stripped it's gears and he dead sticked safely on a road about 10 miles from Leesburg Fl yesterday.   

 

 

Thanks for passing this along.  Sure glad to hear he and the plane are OK.  20 miles from 5000 ft?  Damn!!!  Must have had quite a tailwind :-)

 

Rusty

 

 

Most of the canards have around a 16 to 1 glide ratio.  Not too shabby.  Mike Melville used to take his LongEZ out over the Arizona desert and shut the engine off while catching thermals and playing sailplane. Of course he always built his plane light and minimally equipped.  Of course a good tailwind never hurts, either.  Paul Conner