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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I don’t have as good as explanation
as Jerry. But there I last Sunday pulling up to do a turnaround maneuver, the
full roll half reverse Cuban 8. Just before rolling and applying power the
engine departs the plane due to a blade breaking off my APC 3 blade prop, it
was a very bad sound of balsa and fiberglass breaking occurring in seconds. The
YS160 broke the beams of my soft mount and pulled thru the nose of my trusty
old Typhoon 2000. Yes I was experimenting with this prop and had about only
about 5 hours of time on it. As I see the engine fall from plane I decided to
try and fly the plane back to the field. Plane flipped up when the engine left,
I then realized the plane had poor flying qualities. (Now I now what a really
tail heavy plane feels like.) , Needing control, I dove the plane to the ground
to get airspeed. During dive I was not making much progress to the field, I
was not going to make the field due the wind at my back and the plane’s poor
flying quality and would need to land in the farmers field. It was like a
roller coaster ride down with plane, just trying to keep the plane from
flipping. As I neared the ground I put the plane in a nose down attitude I
pulled full up and flared about 2/3 feet above ground. Plane hits ground nose
first and the experiment is over. Engine search took about 2 ˝ hours to find.
We actually found the blade that broke off before finding engine. Vibration,
cracked fuselage and both ailerons on wings!!, Typhoon will need a little work
to fly again.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> discussion-request@nsrca.org [mailto:discussion-request@nsrca.org] <b><span style='font-weight:
bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>bravo52<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Monday, April 25, 2005 9:52
PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> discussion@nsrca.org<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> OK, so I planted the
Eclipse this weekend......</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Yep, it is no more. Man I loved that plane. I
loved the way it flew like a bullet. Because of the "new"
radio's and the fact that it isn't my primary plane, I programmed in some
flaps. Well, normally, when you deploy flaps without mixing in a little
down, the plane pitches up. I was a couple of mistakes high and my buddy
said, "put down the flaps" and so I did. Well, what happened
next was probably the best looking crash I've seen in a long time. Two
things happened. First, the nose pitched up so fast ( I think I was
carrying too much speed) I think I sheered a control horn on the right
aileron. Then came the tuck. Oh yea, that baby tucked nose under
and rolled left. I was on the flap switch faster than kiddies on candy
but it didn't help. With full opposite aileron, I could barley roll
level. Unfortunately, I was about 60 degrees nose down and picking up
speed. One of the qualities of the old Piorun Eclipse is little or no
drag. Any way, by the time I got on the elevators and leveled out, it plane
was about 3/4 of an inch off the ground and accelerating! Then things
started slowing down. I think they call it temporal distortion. In
very slow motion, the plane was flying ever so smoothly across the ground when
parts just started departing the aircraft. The first to go was the prop
blades. I actually saw one fly off...that is right before the left
horizontal stab tip just touched the ground. Then it exploded in a cloud
of foam. Then, the left wing. Pulled the wing tube right out of the
fuselage. Now mind you, the fuselage is still scooting along at Mach 3
shedding parts like crazy. And even though it seemed like minuets, this
all happened in about 5 seconds! All the while, I'm thinking, "No
problem, I got this.......". In all, the fuselage in primarily
intact. The left wing is good, the right wing lost the wing tube and part
of the wing root, allot of sheeting and some foam. The left
horizontal stab has left the building.......... But......I think I can rebuild
it!</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Jerry L.</span></font></p>
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