X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Received: from imf21aec.mail.bellsouth.net ([205.152.59.69] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.3.5) with ESMTP id 1020249 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 09:10:39 -0400 Received-SPF: pass receiver=logan.com; client-ip=205.152.59.69; envelope-from=sladerj@bellsouth.net Received: from ibm63aec.bellsouth.net ([65.8.211.141]) by imf21aec.mail.bellsouth.net with ESMTP id <20050624130953.QTUT2460.imf21aec.mail.bellsouth.net@ibm63aec.bellsouth.net> for ; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 09:09:53 -0400 Received: from JSLADE ([65.8.211.141]) by ibm63aec.bellsouth.net with ESMTP id <20050624130952.BQKB25209.ibm63aec.bellsouth.net@JSLADE> for ; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 09:09:52 -0400 From: "John Slade" To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" Subject: RE: [FlyRotary] Brake Line Incident Photos Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 09:09:50 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_011E_01C5789C.79EEEDA0" X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 Importance: Normal This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_011E_01C5789C.79EEEDA0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Wow, Ed! You're luck the airplane wasn't consumed. My question - how did that big chunk get blown out of the brake line? Regards, John -----Original Message----- From: Rotary motors in aircraft [mailto:flyrotary@lancaironline.net]On Behalf Of Ed Anderson Sent: Friday, June 24, 2005 8:58 AM To: Rotary motors in aircraft Subject: [FlyRotary] Brake Line Incident Photos For those interested (and may not have seen them) , here are a few photos of my brake line fire incident. Big chunk got blown out of brake line as can be seen from Brakelines.jpg photo. Effect of resin burning seen on wheel pant photos. Once the line broke, the next time I depressed the brake pedal, a fireball from the wheel to over the wing resulted from spraying the hydraulic fluid over the hot brake assembly. The flash point of the fluid is only 240F! I am going to investigate some stuff with a bit higher flash point {:>) Ed Ed Anderson Rv-6A N494BW Rotary Powered Matthews, NC eanderson@carolina.rr.com ------=_NextPart_000_011E_01C5789C.79EEEDA0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Wow,=20 Ed!
You're=20 luck the airplane wasn't consumed.
My=20 question - how did that big chunk get blown out of the brake=20 line?
Regards,
John
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From: Rotary motors in = aircraft=20 [mailto:flyrotary@lancaironline.net]On Behalf Of Ed=20 Anderson
Sent: Friday, June 24, 2005 8:58 AM
To: = Rotary=20 motors in aircraft
Subject: [FlyRotary] Brake Line Incident=20 Photos

For those interested (and may not have seen = them) , here=20 are a few photos of my brake line fire incident.
 
  Big chunk got blown out of brake line = as can be=20 seen from Brakelines.jpg photo.  Effect of resin burning seen on = wheel=20 pant photos.  Once the line broke, the next time I depressed the = brake=20 pedal, a fireball from the wheel to over the wing resulted from = spraying the=20 hydraulic fluid over the hot brake assembly.  The flash point of = the=20 fluid is only 240F!  I am going to investigate some stuff with a = bit=20 higher flash point {:>)
 
 
Ed
 
Ed Anderson
Rv-6A N494BW Rotary = Powered
Matthews,=20 NC
eanderson@carolina.rr.com
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