A HALON extinguisher system that can be discharged into the engine
compartment and/or cockpit would work very well. Cheap, simple and the
vapors are breathable.
       Randy

----- Original Message -----
From: "Marko Bewersdorff" <marko@bewersdorff.com>
To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 2:22 AM
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Sigh! Another engine out Glide!


> For the statistics and general entertainment.
> I had a cylinder fail in a Lycoming powered Cherokee last week at 300AGL.
> Went from 400 fpm climb to a few fpm descend, did a uneventful tailwind
> landing, sticking valve or so, was a flying club plane so I dunno what
broke
> yet but engine made no metallic noise just one missing cylinder.
> Had a precautionary landing with my Continental O-200 Vari EZ on a dry
> lakebed in Nevada couple of years ago, electronic ignition had an
> intermittent issue that must have caused way early ignition so it was like
a
> complete loss of power.
> Instructor coworker of mine had a cylinder fail last year, skydiver pilot
> coworker had a cylinder fail two years ago. Another buddy of mine had his
> freshly overhauled O-540 damaged by a loose nut in the case, another buddy
> had his Jacobs radial just throw a rod.
> Then there is the guy I talked to two weeks ago that just convinced me to
> toss out my aluminum firewall and go stainless, because his turbo broke
off
> of the manifold in his Lanceair and something burned a whole into the
> firewall, because the fiberfrax doesn't withstand fast moving gases.
> Had a no start on a PT6 turbine last year, and sat in the right seat
during
> a no start on a Garret the year before.
> What I make of that? Trying to come up with a good exhaust manifold,
keeping
> oil on the other side of the engine where there is no exhaust, etc. I want
a
> high climb-rate that is better than the sink with the engine stopped, so I
> can get back to the airport.
> Thinking about fires (talking about my plastic Long EZ) the thought
crossed
> my mind to have a manual steam release valve in the engine compartment to
> extinguish fires. (fire at 17500 feet still means 5 minutes of a dive
before
> getting to the ground).
>
> re
>
> Marko
>
>
>
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Rotary motors in aircraft [mailto:flyrotary@lancaironline.net]On
> > Behalf Of Finn Lassen
> > Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 9:03 PM
> > To: Rotary motors in aircraft
> > Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Sigh! Another engine out Glide!
> >
> >
> > Ed Anderson wrote:
> >
> > >Just another day of adventure in rotary land with Ed Anderson.
> > >
> > >Ed Anderson
> > >
> > You know, reading most of the recent postings to this list one could
> > easily get the idea that our motto is:
> >
> > "Need some exitement in your life? Fly a rotary!"
> >
> > Amazing that people new to this list would actually still consider
> > putting a rotary in their airplanes!
> >
> > Finn (close to 400 hours and still in one piece).
> >
> >
> >
> >
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