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Originally posted by naynay
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Ccccccccckkkkkkkkkkk!!!!!!!!!!
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It's called a vari-ez. They're usually powered by 100 HP engines. There are lots of them flying, they're actually good airplanes if it was built right.Comment
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Phil buys all my used sex toys... but only if they are unwashed.Originally posted by TEAMJACOB View Post
"When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic." -Benjamin Franklin
"A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury." -Alexander Fraser TytlerComment
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I'm sure since he got it on trade...he has to have all documents for it. No N number, no care...Originally posted by svo855 View Post
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Originally posted by Rotortrash View Post
shit...I was thinking it was a long-ez...could be a good craigslist find. That's if he has all the logs for it.Comment
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See if you can find a treadmill on CL now to go with it.Comment
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Man, those "experimental" sumbitches fall out of the sky pretty often. Between pilot unfamiliarity and reliability issues, I'd pass.Comment
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I think this is the same plane too.Originally posted by fitzwell View Post"When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic." -Benjamin Franklin
"A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury." -Alexander Fraser TytlerComment
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Wonder what kind of hay he is looking for cause it looks like he was smoking the good hay when he made the trade and took that bad boy homeOriginally posted by Z06killinsbf View PostComment
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Funny how closely it resembles a casket...Comment
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I don't have your experience, but I'll be damned if I'd buy an experimental plane that's never been flown that was built by anyone but myself. Trust my life to some guy I've never met which had no qualifications to build it? Tell me if I'm sounding unrealistic here.Originally posted by svo855 View Post"When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic." -Benjamin Franklin
"A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury." -Alexander Fraser TytlerComment
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The type of plane Denver crashed for comparison.
Ironically enough, he crashed it because whoever built it put the fuel tank switch out of reach.
Post-accident investigation by the NTSB showed that the leading cause of the accident was Denver's inability to safely execute a switch of fuel tanks in flight. The quantity of fuel had been virtually depleted during the plane's transfer to Monterey and several brief practice circles performed by Denver at the airport immediately prior to the final flight. His newly purchased experimental Rutan had an unusual configuration of the fuel selector valve handle. Intended by the plane's designer to be located between the pilot's legs, the fuel selector had instead been placed by the builder behind the left shoulder of the pilot, with the fuel gauge also behind the pilot's seat and thus not visible to the person at the controls.[30][31] An NTSB interview with the aircraft mechanic servicing Denver's plane revealed that he and Denver had discussed the inaccessibility of the cockpit fuel selector valve handle and its resistance to being turned.[30][31]
Before the flight, Denver and the mechanic had attempted to extend the reach of the handle, using a pair of Vise-Grip pliers.[30][31] However, this did not solve the problem, as the pilot could still not reach the handle while strapped into his seat.[30][31] NTSB investigators' post-accident investigation showed that switching the craft's fuel tanks, given the positioning of the fuel selector valves, required a pilot to turn his body a full 90 degrees in order reach the valve. This created a natural tendency to extend one's right foot against the right rudder pedal to support himself as he turned in the seat, causing the aircraft to yaw and pitch up.[30][31]
After the mechanic noted that the fuel sight gauges were visible to only the rear cockpit occupant, Denver asked him about the quantity of fuel shown.[30][31] The mechanic told Denver that he had "less than half in the right tank and less than a quarter in the left tank".[30][31] The mechanic then provided Denver with a shop inspection mirror so that he could look over his shoulder at the fuel sight gauges; the mirror was later recovered in the wreckage.[30][31] Denver told the mechanic that he would use the autopilot inflight, if necessary, to hold the airplane level while he turned the fuel selector valve.[30][31] Denver declined an offer to take on additional fuel, telling the mechanic that he would only be flying for about one hourComment
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Yeah. It's not like you can stick your thumb out if shit goes bad.Originally posted by CJ View PostComment
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