X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Received: from fed1rmmtao107.cox.net ([68.230.241.39] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.2.16) with ESMTP id 3873010 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Sat, 03 Oct 2009 01:44:20 -0400 Received-SPF: none receiver=logan.com; client-ip=68.230.241.39; envelope-from=alventures@cox.net Received: from fed1rmimpo03.cox.net ([70.169.32.75]) by fed1rmmtao107.cox.net (InterMail vM.8.00.01.00 201-2244-105-20090324) with ESMTP id <20091003054345.LCJG21470.fed1rmmtao107.cox.net@fed1rmimpo03.cox.net> for ; Sat, 3 Oct 2009 01:43:45 -0400 Received: from BigAl ([72.192.133.78]) by fed1rmimpo03.cox.net with bizsmtp id o5jh1c0061hf1Cg045jji8; Sat, 03 Oct 2009 01:43:44 -0400 X-VR-Score: 0.00 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=LUvXzW6PoP5kNIO4Hx8A:9 a=HQRMLywWE1KvXAtGRls4Kl_CJ28A:4 a=Jx5ZwEtZ5TD86bUMDlcA:9 a=H3DCavEqZ6GahcrlmuUA:7 a=ZWtUiM_qQU_XgcRuY-kHlNVdk1MA:4 X-CM-Score: 0.00 From: "Al Gietzen" To: "'Rotary motors in aircraft'" Subject: RE: [FlyRotary] Re: Brand new door Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2009 22:43:49 -0800 Message-ID: <06AF271351D04AE2ABC75D3C91D3DFDD@BigAl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0021_01CA43B1.D0D40A30" X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.6838 In-Reply-To: Thread-Index: AcpDxGKUKdMYMAqbQ6S6yk7hL+SaFwAL2/Ig X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5579 Importance: Normal This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0021_01CA43B1.D0D40A30 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Al, Surely your old door didn't look better than that! You did a really = good job! Did you decide that the door was probably not correctly latched as = opposed to the latch failing??? Bill B=20 The old door looked the same - although my gun skills have improved some since, so the paint job may be slightly better. =20 The door is held closed by four 5/16" steel pins; which are held in = steel tubes in the frame of the door, and insert into steel tubes imbedded in = the door frame in the fuselage. It would probably take more than a ton on = force the make them fail. The aerodynamic forces on the door when closed are probably in the range of few pounds. Best guess is the door was only partially latched, and worked loose in flight. =20 Al ------=_NextPart_000_0021_01CA43B1.D0D40A30 Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Al,

Surely your old door didn’t look better = than that!  You did a really good job!

Did you decide that the door was probably not correctly latched as opposed to the latch failing???

Bill B 

The old door looked the = same – = although my gun skills have improved some since, so the paint job may be slightly = better.

 

The door is held closed by four = 5/16” steel pins; which are held in steel tubes in the frame of the door, and = insert into steel tubes imbedded in the door frame in the fuselage.  It = would probably take more than a ton on force the make them fail. The = aerodynamic forces on the door when closed are probably in the range of few pounds. =  Best guess is the door was only partially latched, and worked loose in = flight.

 

Al

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