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 Posted: Fri Aug 04, 2006 5:05 pm Post subject: Latest report |
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David,
"We learn from others mistakes".........I realize it sounds pretty cold and callous right now, but its our way of dealing with these incidents, and it works.
Your little signage on the crossover will get you through, as well as your wits and training.........fly the plane. Good motto!
We all fly with some second thoughts, but that is exactly what keeps most of us out of trouble. Knock on wood...........
Sid
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David Estapa <> wrote:
[quote]--> Kitfox-List message posted by: David Estapa
Witnesses (non-aviation types) are reporting that the engine went quiet
at about 200 feet and the pilot tried to turn back, and went straight in.
The airplane hit about even with the end of the runway and several
hundred feet to the left. Apparently there is a golf course close by but
don't know where it is in respect to the runway. The airplane was one of
the first customer built Vixens. The builder received the manual in
installments as it was being written. Had a 80 hp 912. The pilot was a
ground instructor for Delta, recently retired and was or has built a
Glasair. He had been flying for 25 years. I met him and his son soon
after he bought the airplane. I remembered the encounter because his 12
or 13 year old son knew far more about the Kitfox than I did. Rattled off
all the specs. They wanted me to show them how to fold the wings because
they had never folded them. I can't help but think of that young lad now.
I had watched the first flight of this airplane at McCollum (RYY) in Cobb
County, Georgia several years prior (when did the Vixen come out-around
94?). To my knowledge there are three Kitfoxes built in my little berg of
Woodstock, GA. (Atlanta suburb)Now 2 have been involved in fatal crashes
in less than a year. (The other was the IV on Christmas eve allegedly
doing low level aerobatics with 2 aboard out west). The third Kitfox is
mine, which was signed off by a DAR last week. (anybody know the number
for Allied Van Lines-I'm moving). Anyway for political reason (re: the
ruler of my house) I'll probably wait a few more days to move my bird to
the airport. I have had calls from everyone I know who knows about my
Kitfox-Have you heard...? Its sad, I've been involved in aviation for
about 10 years and know far too many that have succumbed to this hobby. I
have the words "FLY THE PLANE" in big letters in front of the Groups are talking. We´re listening. Check out the [url=http://pa.yahoo.com/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=41144/*http://groups.yahoo.com/local/newemail.html]handy changes to Yahoo! Groups.[/url]
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