X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Sender: To: lml@lancaironline.net Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2009 02:50:57 -0500 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from wind.imbris.com ([216.18.130.7] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.3c4) with ESMTPS id 4030877 for lml@lancaironline.net; Sat, 19 Dec 2009 12:26:37 -0500 Received-SPF: none receiver=logan.com; client-ip=216.18.130.7; envelope-from=brent@regandesigns.com Received: from [192.168.1.116] (207-170-226-178.static.twtelecom.net [207.170.226.178]) (authenticated bits=0) by wind.imbris.com (8.14.2/8.12.11.S) with ESMTP id nBJHPtZx057196 for ; Sat, 19 Dec 2009 09:26:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brent@regandesigns.com) X-Original-Message-ID: <4B2D0C9E.6020104@regandesigns.com> X-Original-Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2009 09:25:50 -0800 From: Brent Regan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Original-To: Lancair Mailing List Subject: Re: Tone on list Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------060800020703020504060003" This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------060800020703020504060003 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Randy writes: <<<>>>> On August 09, 2005 N750F, a Lancair IV-P disintegrated in flight in a dive at Mach 0.62. It is not in your list as it happened in Canada (Transport Canada Report A05W0160). In June of 2003 N29ME, a Lancair IV-P, disintegrated in flight after exceeding 253KTAS (274KIAS). (NTSB Report ATL03LA094) I know these things because I recovered the data from the respective PFDs for TC and the NTSB. An airplane is like a gun, it is not intrinsically dangerous. Both require poor human judgment to become instruments of grief. With performance comes speed and rapid response. Lancairs can get ahead of the skills of their pilots faster than most. What ends up killing the occupants is frequently a deadly combination of arrogance and ignorance with a dash of bravado. Airplanes aren't dangerous but pilots who believe they can stretch the laws of physics are. Merry Christmas! Brent Regan N170BR LIV-P --------------060800020703020504060003 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Randy writes:

<<<<After reading this could you please report back the LML, pointing out all, if any, Lancair's that came apart from exceeding Vne?

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On August 09, 2005 N750F, a Lancair IV-P disintegrated in flight in a dive at Mach 0.62. It is not in your list as it happened in Canada (Transport Canada Report A05W0160).

In June of 2003 N29ME, a Lancair IV-P, disintegrated in flight after exceeding 253KTAS (274KIAS). (NTSB Report ATL03LA094)

I know these things because I recovered the data from the respective PFDs for TC and the NTSB.

An airplane is like a gun, it is not intrinsically dangerous. Both require poor human judgment to become instruments of grief.

With performance comes speed and rapid response. Lancairs can get ahead of the skills of their pilots faster than most. What ends up killing the occupants is frequently a deadly combination of arrogance and ignorance with a dash of bravado.

Airplanes aren't dangerous but pilots who believe they can stretch the laws of physics are.

Merry Christmas!

Brent Regan
N170BR LIV-P

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