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 Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2009 1:55 pm Post subject: Absence of Evidence |
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Bravo ! Juan...............
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jmaynard
Joined: 27 Feb 2008
Posts: 394
Location: Fairmont, MN (FRM)
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| Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2009 2:10 pm Post subject: Absence of Evidence |
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On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 04:48:30PM -0500, Juan Vega wrote:
| Quote: | What this means is in the Absense of speculation and mental masturbation,
which you guys keep doing to the point of bad chaffage,(makes for bigger
calluses) there was clear evidence that the pilots or the builders, notice
the builders, not the design, were the culprit. BUild it well, take care
of it correctly, fly it well makes for a safe plane.
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There's only one problem with this: N158MD. ...unless you're saying that AMD
did a less than professional job of building it, or that the pilot somehow
screwed it up (which the NTSB also found no evidence of). There were
maintenance irregularities, but none of the ones noted would have caused the
observed failure.
Some of us are trying to get to the bottom of the issue. I've got documents
from several aeronautical engineers that agree that cable tension alone is
not acceptable as a means of flutter prevention. Is it the problem that
caused the unexplained inflight breakups? We don't know. Could it have done
so? Betcherass. We'd rather know than guess.
| Quote: | YOu guys that are jerking your selves have taken a good name of a well
designed plane, and dragged it through the mud. from those of us that
built one and now have to defend its design to others becuase of a bunch
of arm chair quarter backs that refuse to look at clear evidence of crappy
piloting and poor maintenace, I say kiss my %$#!(at). You get the picture.
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"Crappy piloting and poor maintenance" will cause problems for any aircraft.
However, it's not been shown that that was the issue with *every* breakup.
Until it is, or until another cause is found and fixed, nothing we can do
will end the speculation.
I'm comfortable that my airplane is not any more likely than any other type
to have an inflight breakup: it was factory built, I maintain it religiously
according to the latest and best information available, and I fly it
conservatively. I spend a lot of time flying it. I'm also getting close to
taking my CFI-SP checkride in it with an examiner who's a homebuilder (I met
her when she flew her RV-4 to give a checkride at the airport I was getting
spin training at). If I thought there was a design flaw, I wouldn't even
consider any of that. Even so, if there turns out to be an issue, it'll be
dealt with as quickly as I can manage.
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Jay Maynard, K5ZC, PP-ASEL, AGI http://www.conmicro.com
http://jmaynard.livejournal.com http://www.tronguy.net
Fairmont, MN (KFRM) (Yes, that's me!)
AMD Zodiac CH601XLi N55ZC http://www.tronguy.net/N55ZC.shtml
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