Mailing List flyrotary@lancaironline.net Message #24403
From: John Slade <sladerj@bellsouth.net>
Subject: RE: [FlyRotary] Brake Line Incident Photos
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 09:09:50 -0400
To: Rotary motors in aircraft <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
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
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