Return-Path: Received: from mail.viclink.com ([66.129.220.6] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.1b9) with ESMTP id 2474400 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Mon, 14 Jul 2003 09:12:59 -0400 Received: from viclink.com (p091.AS1.viclink.com [66.129.192.91]) by mail.viclink.com (8.11.7/8.11.7) with ESMTP id h6EDCgt19350 for ; Mon, 14 Jul 2003 06:12:43 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3F12ABA6.3060908@viclink.com> Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 06:09:58 -0700 From: Perry Mick User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win95; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rotary motors in aircraft Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: Engine Failure Report from Chuck Dunlap References: Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------060702020908020207070509" X-RAVMilter-Version: 8.4.3(snapshot 20030217) (mail.viclink.com) --------------060702020908020207070509 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit John Slade wrote: >>First inflight engine failure of a >>rotary engine I am aware of. Sounds like apex seal went or foreign object >>was injested. >> >> > >I thought the engine was supposed to run on one rotor. Rought, but enough to >keep you airborne was what I'd read somewhere. >John Slade > > > > John, I don't know if you are on Paul's list, but Chuck replied that the engine did continue to run all the way down and extended his glide from 15 to 21 miles. That is good news. He had power to taxi off the road after landing. -- Perry Mick Custom Composite Props mick@bridgingworlds.com http://www.ductedfan.com --------------060702020908020207070509 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit John Slade wrote:

First inflight engine failure of a
rotary engine I am aware of.  Sounds like apex seal went or foreign object
was injested.


I thought the engine was supposed to run on one rotor. Rought, but enough to
keep you airborne was what I'd read somewhere.
John Slade

John,
I don't know if you are on Paul's list, but Chuck replied that the engine did continue to run all the way down and extended his glide from 15 to 21 miles. That is good news. He had power to taxi off the road after landing.

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Perry Mick
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http://www.ductedfan.com

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