X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Received: from [66.219.56.245] (HELO mail.qnsi.net) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.4c2) with ESMTP id 4913951 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Mon, 21 Mar 2011 15:31:22 -0400 Received-SPF: none receiver=logan.com; client-ip=66.219.56.245; envelope-from=bhughes@qnsi.net Return-Receipt-To: "Bobby J. Hughes" Subject: RE: [FlyRotary] Re: Forced Landing ... muffler installations. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01CBE807.9F5C9110" Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 14:36:14 -0600 Disposition-Notification-To: "Bobby J. Hughes" Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Message-ID: <74120FDE88CAFE4DBDA8814BCE20A3F32A996C@qnsi-mail.qnsi.net> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: thread-topic: [FlyRotary] Re: Forced Landing ... muffler installations. Thread-Index: Acvn8gv8Wsupz7FnQYuTia2zlo+51wAFNVQg References: From: "Bobby J. Hughes" To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01CBE807.9F5C9110 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Jeff, =20 You may want to remove it and turn it upside down. I'll bet you lunch you do have loose material. Both mine started loosing material and sounding louder after 20 hours or so. I think Mark S. destroyed his in about 5 hours or less. I sure hope the muffler was my problem and I don't have another grimlin loose in the plane. Need to duplicate the failure.=20 =20 Bobby=20 =20 ________________________________ From: Rotary motors in aircraft [mailto:flyrotary@lancaironline.net] On Behalf Of Jeff Whaley Sent: Monday, March 21, 2011 10:56 AM To: Rotary motors in aircraft Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Forced Landing ... muffler installations.=20 =20 Hey Bobby, glad to hear you got down safely. Having two alternate runways available was indeed a blessing ... the 360 is not doable in most situations. Like many others as you say, I too have a Hush Power II ... mounted under the belly, aft of the firewall; there is probably 4 feet of pipe ahead of my muffler and 2 afterwards. So far all inspections on my muffler have not revealed any loose material within ... but I'm low-time 48 flight hours, maybe 55 hrs if you include ground-running. Incidents like this do make a guy think. I find my installation so loud as it is that I can't imagine operating without a muffler ...=20 =20 Jeff=20 __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 5971 (20110321) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com This message, and the documents attached hereto, is intended only for the addressee and may contain privileged or confidential information. Any unauthorized disclosure is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify us immediately so that we may correct our internal records. Please then delete the original message. Thank you. ------_=_NextPart_001_01CBE807.9F5C9110 Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Jeff,

You may want to remove it and turn it upside down. I’ll bet you lunch = you do have loose material. Both mine started loosing material and sounding = louder after 20 hours or so. I think Mark S. destroyed his in about 5 hours or = less. I sure hope the muffler was my problem and I don’t have another = grimlin loose in the plane. Need to duplicate the failure. =

Bobby

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From: = Rotary motors in aircraft [mailto:flyrotary@lancaironline.net] On Behalf Of Jeff Whaley
Sent: Monday, March 21, = 2011 10:56 AM
To: Rotary motors in = aircraft
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: = Forced Landing ... muffler installations.

Hey Bobby, = glad to hear you got down safely. Having two alternate runways available = was indeed a blessing … the 360 is not doable in most = situations.

Like many = others as you say, I too have a Hush Power II … mounted under the belly, aft = of the firewall; there is probably 4 feet of pipe ahead of my muffler and 2 afterwards. So far all inspections on my muffler have not revealed = any loose material within … but I’m low-time 48 flight hours, = maybe 55 hrs if you include ground-running. Incidents like this do make a = guy think. I find my installation so loud as it is that I can’t = imagine operating without a muffler …

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