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JetPilot
Joined: 10 Jan 2006
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 Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2009 9:34 am Post subject: Another BRS SAVE !!! Here is a guy alive today because he.. |
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This was not a Kolb, it was a Titan, which is a very good experimental airplane in which the pilot was saved by a BRS. The failure was due to fabric on this plane. Many will say that checking the fabric would have prevented this accident, which is true. The more important lesson to be learned here is that experimental airplanes are very complicated machines, you can NOT inspect everything all the time. You can not inspect many welds, or metal parts that can and do fail. Many totally unforeseen things can and do happen with experimental airplanes, they are not Cessnas and Pipers, we should never forget this. A BRS is a really good thing to have on an experimental airplane that may well save your life one day.
http://www.ultralightsquadron.org/Documents/ultralog_200901.pdf
Mike
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Ralph B
Joined: 14 Apr 2007
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Location: Mound Minnesota
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| Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2009 5:58 am Post subject: Re: Another BRS SAVE !!! Here is a guy alive today because |
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Mike, one thing I can say about the Kolb line of experimental aircraft is that many things can be inspected on these aircraft as most of it is out in the open. Another fact about all slow flying aircraft is there is less load on them which equates to less wear on bolts which makes them last longer. I know of many Quicksilver GT-400's that have lasted for many years and they are built with a lot of bolts, unlike the Kolb's that are riveted together. The only bolts and clevis pins I've replaced on my Firestar are the flight controls and the wing clevis pins. I hardly detected any wear when I replaced them after many years of flying.
Ralph
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