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From what I hear Paul Lamar was on the phone with the FAA first thing after the announcement, and offered to help with the investigation. His newsletter was shut down, so I'm suspecting he could have headed for Alabama?
Buly
From: "Russell Duffy" <13brv3@bellsouth.net>
Date: 2005/05/18 Wed AM 12:51:02 EDT
To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Paul
I hope the FAA does allow input during the investigation from one of the
local list members (Tracy, Lynn or Rusty?) that has an understanding of the
aircraft rotary conversion, so as to hopefully find the truth, so that we
may
all learn from this. I fear that they may just call it "failure of a
modified
engine" and be done with it, which would just add to this tragedy.
From what we've heard from Ken Welter, in the past, the NTSB isn't
necessarily interested in doing any more than filling in the boxes on the
investigation form for experimentals. They will be able to do a credible
job of investigating the airframe, and some general info about the engine,
such as whether it was running when it went down. As in the past, they will
likely have a local Mazda dealer inspect the engine, since they are the
"experts". If requested, I would be willing to do what I can to inspect the engine, but
I have to be honest about this. I met Paul several times, and spoke with
him a few more than that, and it would be painful for me to have to do this.
I just don't want to see the wreckage. I almost flew over Saturday to
surprise him, and just can't get over the fact that I can't do that now. Rusty
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