Hey, Thomas, any landing you can walk away from is a good landing.
What is the story regarding the fuel filter?
Hope you get back on the horse soon.
Cheers
Willie Harrison
On 26 Feb 2007, at 04:57, Thomas Scherer wrote:
> <thomas@scherer.com>
>
> it is my sad duty (well, glad - I am reporting it myself) that
> N81EU was lost tonight on a take-off failure with me and Kim Prout
> aboard.,
>
> The Rotax 912 failed on take-off and running out of options I had
> to put her down at the end of the runway with a droop and fence ahead.
>
> Plane came to a rest in a quarry after shearing off the landing
> gear (trigear) and tearing off the firewall foward.
>
> It is a miracle that Kim and me walked away and I fully attribute
> it to the design of the central tunnel and the wheel attachment
> that we're not only alive but walked away unharmed from a complete
> crash,
>
> The flying surfaces seem unhamarmed as well as the fuselelage
> except the firewall foward (which broke off 1oo %) and the gears
> which were lost about 2oo feet short off the crash site.
>
> It is very early to say anything - the engine was fine - we worked
> on it the entire afternoon and found it to be very smooth - I fear
> I installed as new fuel filter which should not have been there -
> more later.
>
> Anyway - we're alive (and having our share of Whiskey) and I
> promise you ... you will hear again of N81EU.
>
> Thanks to the designer who made her this crashworthy - N18EU now
> has 890 hrs under her belly and never missed a beat (Rotax 912).
>
> more later
>
> <Thomas N81EU>
>
> PS: the only pain we can report of is on our feet - after the
> firewall sheared off our feet were in the void and got hurt on the
> last impact. She was flying right to the end. Europa rulez !
>
>
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