Author: William Harrison <willie.harrison@tinyonline.co.uk>
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 11:20:37
From the sound of it, many contributors to this forum are converging on a hypothesis about the failure sequence along the following lines: - Slop builds up between TP12 and TP4. Perhaps this starts a
Author: William Harrison <willie.harrison@tinyonline.co.uk>
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 11:50:06
For what its worth, my inspector, Tony Kay, tells me he suspects that the torque tubes supplied have a variable degree of heat treatment, leading to some folk experiencing more "wear" in the holes th
Author: William Harrison <willie.harrison@tinyonline.co.uk>
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 12:07:27
Thanks Ian The bolted option sounds like good engineering if done properly. One other idea I have heard suggested, (by Tony Kay) is that a snug fitting inner tube is assembled, eg with Bearing Fit /r
Author: William Harrison <willie.harrison@tinyonline.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 11:12:56
Dear All There was an enlightening article on flutter in June's edition of Flyer Magazine.I was unable to get a legible scan of it to attach to this but I have asked the editor if they can give me an
Author: William Harrison <willie.harrison@tinyonline.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 12:08:32
Nigel, Would there be any problem with doing this with 3/8 bolts on an aircraft which had Mod 62 already done to it? This is such an appealing idea I think. Willie
Author: William Harrison <willie.harrison@tinyonline.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 15:24:00
Dear All Many thanks to Martin Le Poidevin at Flyer Magazine for letting us distribute the article on flutter, which is now attached. It is PDF and may be easier to read if you print it. The link to
Author: William Harrison <willie.harrison@tinyonline.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 10:02:39
Carl Having flown around, at least for a short while, in a Europa with 1" of slop at the stab trailing edges (* see also below), without any sign of flutter, I tend to agree that slop of itself might
Author: William Harrison <willie.harrison@tinyonline.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 17:47:55
John It is a fair question, but we'd need to be careful in interpreting the answer - Monos tend to be older and more home-crafted than tris so you'd have to disentangle those factors from any possibl
Author: William Harrison <willie.harrison@tinyonline.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 17:56:07
Hello Bill Mine (G-BZNY) is un-grounded again having passed its FSB 006 checks today. I'll see if I can negotiate a Permit to Fly from Higher Authority (SWMBO) to go to Popham. Who knows, Summer migh
Author: William Harrison <willie.harrison@tinyonline.co.uk>
Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2007 09:16:20
There's a piece by Ivan in August's edition of Flyer, describing a recent trip in a Liberty around the Middle East and then across Europe to the UK. Although entirely lacking in vanity, his piece sho
Author: William Harrison <willie.harrison@tinyonline.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2007 10:37:28
I once worked for a consulting company which was commissioned to design an ethernet filter (it was a long time ago). One of our more challenged colleagues was heard to say, "I can't understand why an
Author: William Harrison <willie.harrison@tinyonline.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 11:07:00
Congratulations, Alan. Here's hoping you'll leave a few dead flies on it so as not to show up the rest of us in the hanger... Looking forward to seeing 'JP at some fly-ins. Best wishes Willie
Author: William Harrison <willie.harrison@tinyonline.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 12:31:10
Hello Peter/everyone, I just spoke with Roger at Europa to ask this same question, amongst others. His understanding, which he expects to be confirmed soon by a revised/new document from the PFA, is
Author: William Harrison <willie.harrison@tinyonline.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 18:13:34
Thanks, Mike. As you will have seen from my earlier posting, Roger thought otherwise (although it's obviously Francis, not Roger who makes the rules). Do you know if the PFA are proposing the 10 hour
Author: William Harrison <willie.harrison@tinyonline.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2007 16:01:35
I have heard that there are still doubts in the AAIB investigation about whether the initial failure was the wing pin (with consequential failure of the tail) or the other way around. Hence we are be
Author: William Harrison <willie.harrison@tinyonline.co.uk>
Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2007 22:58:46
Leaving aside our views on the regulators, it is worth reflecting on the financial implications if your insurance company decides you (or your heirs) are on your own to foot the bill after a big clai
Author: William Harrison <willie.harrison@tinyonline.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 10:32:34
Leaving aside our own views as owners about the integrity and resilience of the tail, another consideration is that the long term market value of our aircraft could be affected by the general percept