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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Sorry to hear the rough landing of your long time
trusted Typhoon..You flew it very well..I too am curious as to what you think
happened to the 3 bld? Charlie Rock</FONT></DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=ahrensw@charter.net href="mailto:ahrensw@charter.net">William
Ahrens</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=discussion@nsrca.org
href="mailto:discussion@nsrca.org">discussion@nsrca.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, April 25, 2005 10:53
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> RE: OK, so I planted the Eclipse
this weekend......</DIV>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">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 ½ 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>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
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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
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OK, so I planted the Eclipse this weekend......</SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; 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></DIV>
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