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Mark,
On the contrary, I think these
stats are very germane. The reason I think these stats are important is
because Lancair's have a long racing history. And very true, most Lancair's
never exceed Vne, or even get to Vne. But there is a portion that have
exceeded this number and beyond.
Lancair's are now and have
been raced all across the US for many years. Many postings have been on the LML
with race results year after year. These planes exceed the published limits. The
Lancair factory has promoted racing at their events. This list goes on about
Lancair's racing. Including my Lancair.
With that said, it would stand
to reason with 1000's of hours and nearly 20 years of racing, if
there were known problems or concerns they would have been posted. Lancair
is vigilant concerning service bulletins, it's in their best interest. If
there were any flutter problems it would have been posted. Proof of that is the
LNC-4 problems in bad weather.
Unlike most aircraft built,
some Lancair's are commonly pushed to the limit and beyond and the STATS speak
for themselves. This is why the stats are germane.
A few have been modified for
the extremes and others have not. All and all not one has come apart. I think
that's pretty impressive!
I am not in any way advocating
any pilot push his / hers Lancair past the published limits ever, in any
conditions. But this is a proven aircraft and if a few of us like to push the
limits that's on us, no one else.
Randy
Stuart
LNC-2
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Sunday, December 06, 2009 9:32
AM
Subject: [LML] Re: Vne is NOT a
meaningless number
Randy,
You
keep repeating these stats as if they mean something germane to this
discussion. Are you implying LNC-2 pilots exceed Vne regularly?
I
have two thoughts about these stats:
First,
without knowing the number of times the published Vne has been exceeded in
LNC-2 aircraft, whether the airframe has been modified, the flight conditions,
altitude, KIAS/KTAS, etc, this 'stat' means nothing. Anecdotal evidence is not
data.
Second,
the fact that Lancair hasn't issued a bulletin regarding flutter on a certain
model of aircraft tells me the Vne chosen for it appears to be appropriate --
it says nothing about the prudence of exceeding it.
What
this info says to me more than anything else is that most LNC-2 pilots have a
healthy respect for the published Vne.
--Mark
Sletten
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The
stats are: Not one LNC-2 has come apart from exceeding Vne. There are no
service bulletins from Lancair regarding high speed flutter on a small
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