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The cause of the previous fatal rotary crash was official found to be "the disabling of the oil injection system", when the poor guy actually had his oil cooler blow. This lead to lost of oil, engine sizing which together with the real cause - adverse aft CG of the Coot he was flying prevented an engine-out recovery. They consulted the local Mazda dealer who's mechanics probably had never seen the inside of a rotary engine and they noted the oil injection system disabled - and there was no one to explain to the NSTB that we premix oil and even if there had been no premix the engine would not have seized. But, as someone mentioned the NSTB just wants to nail a cause and close the report. Since ever experimental is different, I believe they have little incentive to spend a lot of time on an accident. Unlike where they may be hundreds or thousands of GA aircraft all built to the same design/standard - so if they do find something about a GA it may affect hundreds of aircraft instead of one or two or a dozen.
While I share some of your concerns about PL, I do believe he would preclude (provided he isn't thrown out by the NSTB team {:>)) such an erroneous conclusion being drawn.
Ed
----- Original Message ----- From: "Todd Bartrim" <haywire@telus.net>
To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Sent: Saturday, May 21, 2005 4:46 PM
Subject: [FlyRotary] Crash investigation
Is THAT guy going to be in on it? If PL is on the scene, we'll hear a
lot of pronouncements that pump up his ego. I expect some unsupported
generalities around Paul's design flaws (reminiscent of "EWP and
Plugs-Up and etc. are stupid, flawed ideas that can never work" ...
I'll be very surprised if we get anything beyond that ... Jim S.
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I considered this also, but I'd like to think that he would have enough
scruples to not use this tragedy to promote his own ideals and his newsgroup
while denouncing this list and our ways. Until he proves otherwise, I'll
just be happy that there may be more input to the FAA investigation than
from the local Mazda garage mechanic.
I would kick in a little $$ if necessary in order to purchase the wreckage
for an investigation by members of this group. I feel we owe Paul at least
this much.
Todd Bartrim
RV9Endurance
13B Turbo Rotary
C-FSTB
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